Denver COVID cases rising, city changes level

DENVER (KDVR) — As COVID circumstances are slowly however steadily rising within the metropolis, well being officers introduced Friday that the neighborhood degree has modified.

Masks haven’t been applied however the metropolis is encouraging residents to pay attention to signs and people prone to sickness are being warned to be diligent.

The town supplied the following tips and sources to maintain you and your loved ones secure from the latest uptick in circumstances since early April.

Totally different ranges of COVID prevention

Denver is following the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention’s Neighborhood Stage indicators. These tips are to assist folks make the most effective private alternative primarily based on the variety of hospital beds being utilized by COVID-19 sufferers, hospital admissions and the overall variety of new COVID-19 circumstances within the space.

Listed here are the completely different ranges and what’s concerned with every of them:

Low (Inexperienced)

• Keep updated with COVID-19 vaccines
• Get examined in case you have signs

Medium (Yellow)

• If you’re at excessive danger for extreme sickness, speak to your well being care supplier about whether or not you might want to put on a masks and take different precautions
• Keep updated with COVID-19 vaccines
• Get examined in case you have signs

Excessive (Pink)

• Put on a masks indoors in public
• Keep updated with COVID-19 vaccines
• Get examined in case you have signs
• Further precautions could also be wanted for folks in danger for extreme sickness.

Denver’s present COVID standing

As of Might 11, Denver’s one-week common positivity price is 7.95% and as of Friday, 19 persons are hospitalized with COVID-19.

Denver has a reasonably excessive vaccination price with 88% of residents age 5 and older receiving their first dose, and 80.7% of residents age 5 and older being totally vaccinated. Solely half the inhabitants has acquired a booster.

Denver’s one-week cumulative incidence price (7-day common of circumstances per 100,000 inhabitants)  is 209 as of Wednesday.

So far, 175,838 Denverites have contracted the coronavirus and 1,372 have died from it.