SAFFORD — Graham and Greenlee counties, along with Santa Cruz County are the only counties in the state where the community case levels of COVID-19 infections are considered low.
That’s according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Three counties — Cochise, Pima and Yuma — are classified as having medium community case levels of COVID-19, while the case levels are considered high in the remaining nine counties.
There are 42 cases in Graham County as of June 29, while Greenlee County has less than 10. Both are also showing no fatalities as a result of COVID-19.
About 7 percent of the people testing in Graham County are coming back positive, which is down about 3.5 percent over the previous seven days. The CDC does not show testing data for Greenlee County.
New admissions at Mt. Graham Regional Medical Center for COVID-19 are down 4.2 percent.
Seventy-four percent of Graham County’s population has had one dose of vaccine and 64.6 percent is fully vaccinated. It’s much lower in Greenlee County, with 49.6 percent of population having received at least one dose of vaccine and 44.3 percent fully vaccinated.
