PHOENIX — Ten of Arizona’s 15 counties now have the highest levels of COVID-19 in the community, the state fitness branch said Friday.
The most recent update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists the following counties with the highest levels of the COVID-19 network: Maricopa, Apache, Coconino, Gila, La Paz, Mohave, Navajo, Pinal, Yavapai, and Yuma.
Maricopa, Mohave, Coconino, Gila, Pima and Cochise counties have gone from medium to high over the past month, while Apache and Navajo counties already had the highest levels of COVID-19 community.
Health officials proposed masks for indoor public spaces where virus levels on the network are high, which was decided through COVID-19 cases according to 100,000 citizens over the past week and the influence of the disease on the health system.
Don Herrington, acting director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, said in a news release that the virus’ omicron subvariant BA. 5 “represents a developing percentage of sequenced COVID-19 cases in Arizona. “
“Evidence suggests that this subvariant is more effective in escaping immune coverage presented through vaccination or a past infection,” Herrington said in the statement. “In addition, immunity would possibly begin to decline during the months following the last infection or vaccination. “
Herrington recommends that other people keep their vaccine coverage up to date because the Mayo data reported that other unvaccinated people were 8 times more likely to be hospitalized and 21 times more likely to die from the virus than those who had received injections and a booster.
People can find vaccine providers on the Ministry of Health’s website.
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