DARTMOUTH - There have been no new cases of COVID-19 since July 10 at the Bristol County correctional facilities, according to a news release from the department.

No staff members, county inmates or ICE detainees in BCSO custody have tested positive for COVID-19 since July 10, and every individual who has tested positive since the pandemic began has made a full recovery, noted public information officer Jonathan Darling in the release.

"We're not out of the woods yet," Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson stated in the news release. "There are still more than 100,000 COVID cases in Massachusetts and many experts are predicting another wave in the fall. We will continue to be vigilant and careful in our facilities, especially when new individuals are admitted."

Since the pandemic began, 48 county inmates tested positive for COVID-19. All inmates either moved back to general population from medical isolation after recovering or were released as their sentences had concluded, the release said.

Over the last six months, 43 BCSO staff members tested positive and 42 of them recovered and returned to duty. A health care professional with Correctional Psychiatric Services left the BCSO to take a different job at a medical facility in Dartmouth after recovering.

The news release noted the breakdown of the 43 positive cases is as follows: Nurse (2), K9 Officer (1), Corrections Officer (28), Mental Health Clinician (1), Lieutenant (2), Communications Dispatcher (2), Classification Counselor (3), Sergeant (2), Captain (1) and Teacher (1).