WADESBORO — Anson County moved down from a “critical” COVID spread designation by the state to a less significant category as cases continue to drop.
Every two weeks the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services publishes a county alert system which categorizes each county into three different tiers depending on the number of COVID-19 cases: yellow means significant community spread, orange is substantial and red is critical community spread.
The county alert system combines the case rate, percent of test that are positive and the hospital impact within the county to determine what group a county falls in over a 14-day period.