Newest state report shows significant decrease in COVID wastewater particles
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' released the latest COVID-19 data on Wednesday, with most indicators of transmission and spread being down from last week's numbers.
The report detailed several categories of early-warning indicators. The most striking figure included the wastewater particles being significantly down, with a 33% decrease since last week.
Particles appearing in wastewater can signal how quickly the virus is spreading, even if people don't get tested or have symptoms.
Since Sept. 7 in the state, there were:
- 12.5 million COVID-19 virus particles found in wastewater
- 5.4% emergency room visits for COVID symptoms
- 1,100 hospital admissions COVID-19 patients by week, an increase from the previous week where 1,002 were admitted.
Cases are down 5%.
Nearly 80,000 people have received the new COVID-19 booster. There are 25 counties in the state in a high rate of transmission, including Person, Wayne, Halifax, Edgecombe and Vance counties.
More statistics are available here.
A Sept. 7 report revealed the number of new coronavirus cases fell everywhere in the world the week of Aug. 29 - Sept. 2 by about 12%, according to the World Health Organization's latest weekly review of the pandemic issued Wednesday.
