Nursing home COVID-19 cases dropped this week locally and in state after they rose last week.

Four Mahoning County nursing homes have at least three combined patient and staff cases this week after there were five such facilities last week. None of the numbers changed from last week among the four facilities listed.

The total number of Mahoning County nursing home cases dropped this week from 39 to 34. The breakdown this week was 12 patient cases and 22 staff cases. The number of Mahoning County facilities with at least one case dropped from 20 to 18.

Trumbull County, meanwhile, continued to have just three cases this weeek ä one among patients and two among staff. And Columbiana County facilities continued to have no cases.

Trumbull County reported one nursing home death this week, but Mahoning and Columbiana had none. There have been 79 deaths among Columbiana County facilities, 275 in Mahoning and 152 in Trumbull.

Across Ohio, the number of virus cases among patients dropped from 200 to 103, and staff cases dropped from 309 to 208.

Read more in the Friday Vindicator.