A major bombardment is taking place in Yuma County, with elected officials and fitness officials to manage up to 10,000 COVID-19s on the loose until the end of the week.
The county remains a hot spot for the new coronavirus in Arizona, with infection rates doubling the state average, the number of daily cases reported has decreased significantly.
Yuma County has partnered with Yuma city officials and the Arizona Department of Military and Emergency Affairs (DEMA) to put in effect the check bombing, which began Tuesday.
The bombing lasts until Saturday and will take place in the parking lot of the Yuma Civic Center, one of the largest sites in the region capable of carrying out the large drive-in project.
“Our numbers are moving in the right direction. Now is the time to move even harder so that we can take a forged position, to start falling because the numbers are starting to pass through us,” Yuma Mayor Doug Nicholls said.
Just two weeks ago, the new daily infections reported to the state through Yuma County fitness officials were in three-digit numbers. But in recent weeks, the numbers have dropped to 38 new instances on Monday.
To date, Yuma County has reported 11624 positive cases to COVID-19. Its population-consistent infection rate is now 5,048 people most consistent with a population of 100,000, the highest rate among Arizona’s 15 counties. Yuma left Santa Cruz County, a border county to the east that also suffered a primary epidemic.
Organizers of this week’s check bombing plan to manage an average of 2000 checks according to the five days of the event. Tests begin at 6:30 a.m. each morning and continue until 12:30 p.m.
Once completed, organizers estimate that the bombing will have a greater total number of tests conducted in Yuma County.
Several fitness organizations administered more than 56,000 tests on Monday, according to the county update. This is the equivalent of about a quarter of the county’s total population.
The Regional Border Health Centre in the Somerton Agricultural Community has conducted the majority of the tests, with more than 41,000 since March, according to the centre.
The medium will not be a component of this week’s bombing, however, they will continue to test at their st. Louis and Somerton clinics.
“Something like the bombing of evidence and ongoing continues to give us a transparent picture of the environment,” said Kevin Tunell, A spokesman for Yuma County.
The check is free, but organizers are asking others to register online. They can also register on the site. Tunell claimed that the bombing is open to all, but especially to those who have symptoms of COVID-19 or who have been exposed to a person in poor health.
The drive-thru occasion will remain in the same format as the previous bombardment, with rows of cars running several lanes in the civic center’s car park. County fitness officers will administer the tests, Tunell said.
Yuma County was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Despite its small population of approximately 200,000 people, Yuma County citizens are at most twice as likely to be inflamed as citizens of Maricopa County, the most populous county and the county with the number of cases in Arizona.
Nicholls attributed the severity of the outbreak in Yuma to its location on the Mexican and California borders.
Nearby cities and regions, such as the Imperial Valley in California and the Mexican border towns of San Luis Río Colorado and Mexicali, have also battled THE COVID-19 epidemics. Nicholls stated that the 4 spaces are vital economic and cultural ties and that there is a constant displacement between them.
But Nicholls cautioned that the factor should not be considered only because of the number of cases shown in Yuma County.
No doubt they will accumulate as a component of the check bombing, he said.
“The figures I’m looking for have more to do with hospitalization and mortality rates, and they’ve dropped and are being drastically reduced,” Nicholls said. “Unfortunately, we still see dead people, yet we are one per day.”
On Monday, Yuma Regional Medical Center, the only hospital in the county, reported 54 hospitalizations, adding 22 cases in intensive care. They also indicated that there are 19 enthusiasts in use and 27 available.
County fitness officials have reported 289 deaths to date, the third highest overall in the urban counties of Maricopa and Pima. The mortality rate in Yuma County is double the state average. Only Navajo and Apache counties in northern Arizona have higher mortality rates than Yuma.com.
The Department of Emergency and Military Affairs provided the 10,000 verification kits for this week’s big bombing. They’ll deploy members of the Arizona National Guard to help traffic.
“Our military has volunteered to fulfill this vital desire to help other people who are seriously ill in our community. These infantrymen and aviators make up the next wonderful generation, ready there. Major General Michael T. McGuire, director of DEMA, said in a written statement.
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