COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ.)
As the vacation season approaches, so does the rise in COVID-19 instances round a number of counties in Missouri.
The Division of Well being experiences in Boone County, there have been 101 new COVID-19 instances this weekend and 43 new instances Monday. That makes 334 lively instances within the county.
“That had been the very best quantity we have had in a short time, so in fact, we’ll proceed to trace these numbers,” mentioned Sara Humm, a spokeswoman with Columbia/Boone County Division of Public Well being and Human Companies.
Consultants say chilly climate shouldn’t be the one issue contributing to instances rising.
“I believe we gotta take a look at the time change as an element, , it will get darkish earlier and once more persons are going to spend extra time indoors as an alternative of out as a result of now it is getting darkish at 5:30,” Epidemiologist Nathan Kofarnus says.
In Cole County, instances are additionally barely rising. The Division of Well being experiences 35 new instances over the weekend and 34 new instances on Monday.
This brings the county up by 15.1 % in comparison with the earlier week. Which means there have been about 15 new optimistic instances of COVID.
Kristi Campbell with the Cole County Well being Division says, “We most likely will see a slight enhance within the winter… hopefully due to group immunity and vaccine standing, the peaks we are going to see might be lower than the peaks we noticed final November.”
Though vaccinated persons are rising round Missouri, the chance of catching COVID continues to be fairly excessive.
Throughout the previous 7 days, there have been six thousand seven hundred and sixty new COVID instances in Missouri.
“Now extra time is spent indoors in shut proximities to different individuals and in order that actually supplies some extra alternative for a person-to-person unfold and transmission in these shut indoor quarters,” Kofarnus mentioned.
Boone County presently ranks eighth within the state with probably the most coronavirus instances previously week, and Cole County ranks twenty sixth within the state for the counties with probably the most coronavirus per 100 thousand previously week.
With the vacation season simply across the nook, well being officers urge the group to take precautions, particularly round older adults and folks with preexisting medical circumstances.