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Ross County has shown enough improvement in the leveling off of COVID-19 cases, that it has dropped from Red Level 3 to Orange Level 2.
The latest update on the Ohio County Alert Risk Map was released Thursday, May 6th.
Ross County is also showing that 33% of it’s population has been vaccinated from the COVID-19 virus.
Other area counties remained the same as follows:
RED LEVEL 3- Pickaway and Fairfield
ORANGE LEVEL 2- Ross, Pike, Fayette, Highland, Jackson, Scioto and Hocking
YELLOW LEVEL 1- Vinton
Statewide, Ohio is now showing new COVID-19 cases are also dropping, now at 141 per 100,000. That is down from 201 per 100,000 just three weeks ago.
Some of our readers have asked “How is this rate figured?” According to the Ohio Department of Health; “Officials take the number of new cases reported statewide within two weeks and divides it by Ohio’s population of approximately 11,689,100. That result is then multiplied by 100,000, which ultimately gives the number of cases per 100,000.”
Governor Mike DeWine says it will require under 50 per 100,000 new cases over a two week period in order for all state health mandates to be lifted for COVID-19.
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