Shelby County’s Covid-19 numbers fell again over the past week.
The area’s seven-day rolling average fell to settle around 300 new cases per day late this week and below 300 — to 282 — on Friday. This is down from recent average of around 600 new cases per day and down from a Delta-variant peak of over 1,000 cases.
Active cases fell by about about 1,500. Last weekend, more than 5,000 people in Shelby County were diagnosed with Covid-19 and reported to the Shelby County Health Department. On Friday, the health department reported 3,490 active cases. Of those, 1,087 were pediatric cases. So far, the county has reported 24,992 pediatric Covid-19 cases.
The weekly average rate of positive Covid tests fell for the sixth straight week. For the week of September 19th, 8.3 percent of tests were positive. That’s down from a record high of 17.6 percent from early August.
