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COVID positivity rate decreases in Imperial County

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Imperial County, CA
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August 3, 2020 12:55 PM
Published 12:52 PM

EL CENTRO, Calif. (KYMA, KECY)- After several weeks Imperial County's COVID positivity rate has finally decreased. Over the past two weeks, the county recorded 878 new cases.

But the seven-day positive test rate had dropped to 13.56.

A significant decrease from when California Governor Newsom called for the closure of the County for its 7-day positivity rate of 23 percent.

“If this continues I will definitely feel comfortable saying we have indeed hit our peak and moving in a good direction,” said Dr. Stephen Munday.

While there has been less testing Munday says that isn’t because the county is lacking testing materials instead people probably aren’t experiencing symptoms.

Meanwhile, the county is also preparing for flu season.

Health officer Stephen Munday says its important everyone get flu vaccinations.

“We are already started to work on our flu plans not just flu but immunizations in general because we understand the importance of that umm so it's going to be important that we can do it in a safe way to do that whether we would do it outdoors or it would be a drive-thru option.”

Munday also says that social distancing and wearing a mask will help control the spread of the flu.

“One interesting thing to note in San Diego when COVID started becoming more rampant and they put in their distancing and stay at home orders they saw a huge and almost immediate drop off in flu transmission and so for flu were very happy we have a vaccine for that but the point is what we do decrease COVID transmission is also very effective with that.”

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