COVID cases on 2-week decline in county

COVID-19 cases are have been trending downward in Crittenden County over the past two weeks while they’re going up in most places across the county due to the new Omicron variant. 

Here, there were 25 cases confirmed during the seven-day period ending Tuesday, giving the county a positivity rate of 38.36, which is still in the Red Zone.

Meanwhile the vaccination rate is improving slightly in the county where 42.2 percent of the population is now inoculated. Crittenden remains one of the lowest vaccinated counties in Kentucky.

Get more comprehensive COVID figures in this week's full edition of The Crittenden Press.