SIOUX CITY Woodbury County s cumulative tally of COVID-19 infections this week hit the 12,000 mark, but current indicators show the outbreak is losing steam.Â
In its weekly COVID-19 status update, the Siouxland District Health Department this week wrote that the percentage of coronavirus tests coming back positive and the number of new infections has been on the decline in Woodbury County for two consecutive weeks.Â
For the week ended Dec. 20, the county s positivity rate was 9.4 percent, the first time since August that the positive percentage was below 10 percent. The positivity rate was around 10.6 percent the week ended Dec. 13, with both figures well below the mid-November peak of around 18.4 percent.Â
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The nearly yearlong coronavirus pandemic has been full of gloomy numbers but Wednesday brought an encouraging one more than 1 million people have received their first shot of a Covid-19 vaccine.