Low case counts and positivity rates bring Pittsfield out of the COVID-19 'red zone"
The city's level of transmissibility has been downgraded due to a decrease in the testing positivity rate below 5 percent.
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The city's level of transmissibility has been downgraded due to a decrease in the testing positivity rate below 5 percent.
Studies on the Omicron variant continue to determine its severity. We connect with local health officials to determine what the data is saying so far.
Around half of the 63 locally transmitted cases were in Yau Tsim Mong district.
PITTSFIELD â Before schools can reopen, the city must first see a dramatic turnaround in COVID-19 infections and test positivity rates. That was the message from Mayor Linda Tyer on Tuesday at the yearâs first City Council meeting â a sprawling Zoom session that stretched past midnight â in which she cited an âenormousâ increase in COVID-19 infections this past fall and winter. And while there was a decline in cases in mid-December, infections have surged once again and the city is ânow back on the upward trend,â she said. âIn fact, last week we ha...
Byron Bay's 'body-to-body' crowds and bungled COVID sewage tests worry locals ThuThursday 31 updated ThuThursday 31 DecDecember 2020 at 12:54pm Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Watch (Supplied: Instagram) Print text only Cancel Byron Bay locals fear a deadly cocktail is brewing as visitors flock to the popular destination for New Year's Eve celebrations, amid news that authorities have bungled the local COVID sewage testing results. Key points: Travellers from across Australia have been gathering in numbers each night at Byron Ba...