Davidson County downgraded to yellow on statewide COVID county alert system
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Davidson County has been placed in the lowest level, code yellow, in the county alert system by the North Carolina Health and Human Services due to a significant decrease in the testing positivity rate and the number of new COVID-19 cases.
As of March 12, Davidson County had 117 new cases per 100,000 residents in the past 14 days and the positivity rate, which is the percentage of COVID-19 test out of all test given that came back positive, is 5.3 percent. The statewide positivity rate is 3.7 percent as of Friday.
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Davidson County sees reduction in new COVID cases
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After two months of rolling out its COVID-19 vaccination program, Davidson County is starting to see some positive results and is getting some reinforcement later this month.
As of Feb. 9, Davidson County has a 12 percent positivity rate, which is the percentage of tests that came back positive in the past two weeks; it is a reduction from the 13.9 percent last week. The positivity rate on Jan. 16 was 17.8 percent.
There have been 1,216 new cases of COVID confirmed in Davidson County in the past 14 days, which is 725 cases per 100,000 residents. On Jan. 21, there were 2,117 new cases confirmed in a 14 day period, which was 1,263 cases per 100,000 residents.
Davidson County reaches grim milestone of 100 COVID-19 deaths
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Davidson County has reached another sobering milestone during the nationwide COVID-19 pandemic which has lasted almost one year. On Monday, Davidson County surpassed 100 deaths and 11,000 confirmed cases COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020.
There have been 11 reported deaths of Davidson County residents due to COVID-19 in the past week, bringing the overall total of deaths to 107 since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020.
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According to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Davidson County had 11,542 total cases of the virus as of Monday.