BRANCH COUNTY, MI (WTVB) – For the first time since August 10 of last year, Branch County is out of the red as far as a key COVID-19 metric is concerned.
Case rates have dropped to a point where the latest statistics from the State of Michigan show Branch County as of Sunday had a seven day positive test rate of eight-point-six percent.
That moves the county down from the red high risk level for spread of the virus to the orange substantial risk category.
A county is considered to be at high risk for spreading the virus if the rate is 10 percent or higher.
If the positive test rate drops below eight percent, a county would then be at a moderate risk.
The Delta variant started to hit in the middle of July 2021 after a fairly quiet May and June.
Delta started to fade before there was a post holiday surge of cases thanks to the omicron variant which was discovered in South Africa at Thanksgiving.
Thanks to the omicron variant, the positive test rate got to as high as about 35 percent on January 19.
The metric for weekly cases per 100,000 was still barley in the red for the period between February 21 through February 27 as it was at 116 after it was up to nearly 1,800 in late January.
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