Twenty new cases of coronavirus were confirmed Friday by the Shelby County Health Department at a 2 p.m. briefing, bringing the total number of cases in the county to 30.

“We’re beginning to see transmission in different areas,” Alisa Haushalter, head of the health department said.

What health officials expect to begin seeing next is social setting transmissions, mentioning grocery stores as an example.

She said it will take everyone, at an individual level, to prevent more spreading of the virus.

The results didn’t double overnight, she said, as the health department didn’t have results from private labs.

Haushalter did not say it, but that has been an ongoing problem in the dissemination of information about the virus in general, that information about testing has not been easy to get.

Private labs are not required to share such information, only confirmed cases, but the scope of how much testing is really occurring remains somewhat of a mystery.

State health officials have asked private labs to begin voluntarily providing how many tests they have administered, not just report confirmed cases.

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