COVID-19 cases are rising in more than half of all U.S. states due to the new coronavirus subvariant, said a report of the U.S. business magazine Forbes.
White House COVID-19 advisor Ashish Jha said Sunday the vaccines are still “holding up” against the virus and the new strain does not cause more severe infection, according to the report.
Omicron subvariant BA.2 is more transmissible than the original strain, causing infections to tick up, Jha said. The country is averaging about 35,000 new infections daily, up 42 percent from two weeks prior, according to data of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
New York is the sole state in the United States with multiple counties at high risk of COVID-19 impacts, Times Union on Sunday cited the most recent data provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
“There are now 10 counties in the state at high risk of coronavirus illness, all in the Finger Lakes, Central New York, North Country and Southern Tier regions,” reported the daily newspaper serving capital city Albany of New York State and its surrounding areas.
This came as the state has identified two highly contagious Omicron sub-lineages that are making their way through Central New York and surrounding regions where coronavirus spread is most prevalent, according to the report.
In comparison, there is only one other county in the continental United States at high risk of COVID-19 — and it is in Kansas, said Times Union, noting that almost all of the country is at “low” risk for COVID-19.
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