“Our positivity yield for Coconino County has skyrocketed,” county epidemiologist Matt Maurer said on Thursday. A quarter (25.6%) of the 6,117 tests conducted in the county this week had positive results. According to Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) data, the county reported a total of 523 cases Jan. 3, the most in a single day throughout the entire pandemic so far. Prior to this week, the week of Jan. 9, 2021, had most COVID cases in the entire pandemic, with 1,284 cases. At the end of its first month in the county, omicron was reported to make up around half of the variant cases reported in December, split with delta.

Source: Daily Sun January 09, 2022 03:15 UTC