Tarrant County drops COVID threat level to ‘low’ for first time in more than 2 years
Tarrant County lowered its COVID-19 community threat level to “low” for the first time since February 2020 on Friday.
New COVID cases and hospitalizations have continued to decline for months.
The “low” threat means the rate of new COVID cases has been less than 200 per 100,000 residents in the past seven-day average. Another indicator that led to the lower warning was the rate of hospital beds being used by COVID patients falling below 10% in a seven-day average.
The county has reported 78 COVID-related deaths since March 16, including 11 on Friday, along with 86 new cases.
Tarrant County has reported 562,149 COVID cases, including 5,839 deaths since the pandemic swept the country in March 2020.
This story was originally published March 25, 2022 at 3:56 PM.
