Newport Naval Base personnel are discouraged from shaking hands or hugging, as COVID grades in Newport County have increased. They are also told to avoid the unnecessary and make sure they have enough food and medicine for 14 days.
The naval station raised its fitness coverage condition point to BRAVO, or moderate, after the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted last week that the COVID-19 hotspot in Newport County had climbed to the top. The new ranking means that 3 counties in Rhode Island, Providence, Kent and Newport, are at the highest points, while the other two, Bristol and Washington, are at moderate points.
Overall, Rhode Island has noticed roughly a doubling of COVID cases since Nov. 19, according to data from the Rhode Island Department of Health website. Last week, Rhode Island had 2152 new COVID cases, a rate of just under 204 new COVID cases. instances of 100,000 inhabitants, while on November 19, the rate of about 100,000 new cases of 100,000 people.
Another seven people with COVID-19 died last week, bringing the state’s total to 3789, and another 154 people were hospitalized. Last January, COVID hospitalizations peaked at around 600.
The recent accumulation in instances is attributed to holidays, with their accumulation and meetings.
“The relatively small buildup in COVID-19 activity that Rhode Island is experiencing lately is not expected to last long,” said Annemarie Beardsworth, spokeswoman for the state Department of Health. virus activity, adding COVID-19 activity, holidays. “
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The number of instances of the new highly contagious omicron subvariant, XBB. 1. 5, “is beginning to increase,” according to Beardsworth, but the BQ. 1 omicron subvariant “still constitutes the largest proportion of clinical strains collected through mid-December. “
“The State Health Laboratory receives only a small proportion of clinical samples for genetic sequencing control, and the effects of sequencing will be about 3 weeks after the collection date,” Beardsworth said.
CDC’s COVID Tracker shows XBB. 1. 5 as the top subvariant in New England and second, BQ. 1. 1, in the U. S. U. S. until January 7. It does not break down knowledge at the state level.
With the number of cases surging, the state Ministry of Health announced it had begun hosting mobile COVID-19 monitoring stations on Friday. It has scheduled 20 control stations in Providence and West Warwick through the end of this week and plans more. A calfinishar is requested from the Ministry of Health.
Meanwhile, on Friday, Lifespan will open an urgent care center, the fourth, at 11 Commerce Way, Unit 5, in Johnston, that can treat others with COVID, as well as other common medical conditions and injuries.
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“The network wants to know that the state’s urgent care facilities can treat COVID and help Rhode Islanders have long wait times in the emergency room,” said Dr. Olivier Gherardi, chief medical officer for Lifespan Urgent Care.
“It’s a coincidence that Johnston’s Lifespan Urgent Care Center is opening at a time when Providence County is at a ‘high’ level,” Gherardi said, “but we are able to serve everyone who comes through our doors. We need to know that we are here.
Here are CDC’s recommendations for other people in counties with medium or high incidence of COVID:
The CDC provides those precautions for everyone, regardless of the community’s COVID level: