Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird and the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department on Tuesday announced that the COVID-19 Risk Dial will remain in low-yellow for a third consecutive week.
The yellow level indicates that the risk of the virus spreading and the impact on the community are moderate. On the color-coded dial, red represents the highest risk of COVID-19 spread and green represents the lowest risk.
The position of the Risk Dial is based on multiple local indicators and information from the previous three weeks:
- The number of new weekly cases dropped from 300 the week ending April 24 to 247 cases the week ending week May 1.
- The community positivity rate decreased from 7 percent the week ending April 24 to 6.1 percent the week ending May 1.
- The number of local patients hospitalized with COVID-19 averaged 30 for the month of April.
- No local COVID-19 deaths have been reported since April 19.
- About 49 percent of the local population age 16 and over is fully vaccinated.
For more information, visit COVID19.lincoln.ne.gov or call the Health Department hotline at 402-441-8006.