FALL RIVER After more than half a year, Fall River has finally emerged from the red zone.
The city’s COVID test positivity rate dipped to 3.69% on Thursday, low enough for the city to be considered a moderate-risk community for the coronavirus, according to the state Department of Public Health. Fall River had been at high risk for 29 weeks in a row.
This is the lowest test positivity rate since the week of Oct. 22. At the time, Fall River had only just started to feel the effects of a second wave of COVID a devastating period from late October, peaking in January and declining through the end of February that accounted for about 70% of all COVID cases in the city.