COVID-19 rate increases in Shelby County

2023-08-20 05:00:39

(MENAFN) COVID-19 rate has raised reasonably since the middle of July as stated by the Shelby County Health Department Office of Epidemiology.

COVID-19 public health pointers are enduring to be observed to trace virus movement in the community.

Records view the latest seven-day weekly standard, gathered on August 12, shows 559 positive cases a week in Shelby County. That data only involves Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis stated by test centers, not home tests.

As stated by the Shelby County Health Department, there were 20 COVID-19 positive patients in region hospitals from August 14.

Sedgwick County Health Department (SCHD) declares that from Saturday, the lately spotted variant called BA.2.86 has not been discovered in wastewater tests in Shelby County or any additional district in Tennessee.

The variant has allegedly been spotted lately in Michigan, Denmark, Israel, as well as the United Kingdom.

The ongoing major variants in Shelby County are XBB.9.1 in addition to XBB.1.16 which are subvariants of the Omicron variant, presently the main strain of COVID-19 in the whole world, SCHD states.

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