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In late December, government officials predicted higher positive COVID case counts due to holiday gatherings and suspicions of the presence of the omicron variant on island.
Last week, the Department of Public Health and Social Services announced that the COVID-Area Risk score would no longer be used to measure the proliferation of COVID-19 in the community.
Guam’s COVID-Area Risk score has spiked to 162.6, as 309 new cases of the virus were reported from Saturday through Monday, according to the Joint Information Center.
The Department of Public Health and Social Services reported 210 new cases of COVID-19 from 1,393 tests run on Jan. 3, with 45 new cases identified through contact tracing, according
The 210 COVID-19 cases reported Tuesday are the result of the post-holiday surge expected after increased travel and gatherings, likely “paired with the emergent and highly transmissible omicron variant,” the