Shelby County passed a grim milestone this week as Covid deaths here ended the week at 2,021.
Sixty-one deaths were recorded during the week. Deaths from the 19-month pandemic in Shelby County were 1,960 as of Saturday.
Overall case counts continue to fall, however. The weekly average of positive Covid deaths have fallen for the last five weeks. The seven-day rolling average of new cases here fell every day this week, starting with an average of around 600 on Saturday to around 400 later in the week.
Active cases of Covid fell from week to week, also. Last week, nearly 6,000 were known to have the virus. The number fell to around 5,000 this week. Of those, 1,666 were pediatric cases.
