Kansas City-area hospital and public health leaders say they're significantly concerned about the state of the pandemic heading into the holiday weekend.
peak pressure. deaths in the uk with covid are now at their lowest since august, and the health secretary said, for england, the data was looking favourable for the easing of restrictions next month. we looking favourable for the easing of restrictions next month. restrictions next month. we are on track for the restrictions next month. we are on track for the opening restrictions next month. we are on track for the opening on restrictions next month. we are on track for the opening on the - restrictions next month. we are on track for the opening on the 19th i restrictions next month. we are on j track for the opening on the 19th of july, and we will watch vigilantly, and we will look at the data in particular at the start of next week, but i would say that the data over the last week or so has been encouraging. over the last week or so has been encouraging- over the last week or so has been encourauain. ., , ., , encouraging. covid case rates in the uk are going encouraging
will be eased, but they won t be lifted compeltely before august. across the uk the number of covid deaths recorded in a week has dropped below 100 for the first time since the end of last summer. here s our health editor, hugh pym. 0ne hospital where life is more like it was before the pandemic. at clacton in essex, there haven t been any covid patients for three months now, not unlike some other hospitals in the uk. and a contrast to what was happening during the months of peak pressure. deaths in the uk with covid are now at their lowest since august, and the health secretary said, for england, the data was looking favourable for the easing of restrictions next month. we are on track for the opening on the 19th ofjuly, and we will watch vigilantly, and we will look at the data in particular at the start of next week, but i would say that the data over the last week or so has been encouraging. covid case rates in
SPR s Doug Nadvornick reports.
Spokane County’s chances of staying in Phase 3 of Washington’s coronavirus reopening protocol beyond the first week of May are becoming more tenuous.
Interim Health Officer Francisco Velazquez says the county is failing one of the two metrics state officials consider when evaluating counties’ progress.
That’s the two-week case rate. The county is at 295 cases per 100-thousand residents, well above the state’s acceptable standard of 200. In the other metric, hospitalizations, he says the county is teetering around the acceptable level of 5%.
“We’ve gone over 5% a couple of times. We were at 5.3% Tuesday. So we’ve fluctuated around that 5%, that magical number, for hospitalization. Our case rate is high. It’s going to be hard to bring it back below 200. We’re going to have to do some work on that. So it’s not clear if we’re going to be able to continue on Phase 3, he said.