Raleigh, NC – Roy Cooper government to update North Carolina on state response to coronavirus on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.
On January 6, Cooper extended his state of residence order and weather status from 10 pm to January 29. Under the weather, people should leave their homes only if necessary, including work and essential commissions.
During and after the holiday season, the state has seen the highest total daily cases to date. As of Monday, January 11, the state had an average of 8,430 new cases a day and 3,866 people were treated in hospitals for COVID-19.
Most of North Carolina’s 100 counties are classified as “red,” meaning they have critical levels of viral spread.
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As cases grew, the state’s effort to vaccinate people against coronavirus began slowly.
Many counties began vaccinating people aged 75 and over in the first week of January, but both appointment-only and scheduled vaccination clinics quickly depleted the available doses, often before the hour. scheduled event, removing the elderly.
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Some counties, including Wake and Durham, will not start vaccinating the elderly in phase 1B until next week. Wake County will begin these vaccinations on January 19, the day a new web portal and phone line will be unveiled, so that people 75 and older can register to receive a vaccine.
On Monday, Durham County Health Director Rodney Jenkins said the county hopes to deliver 500,000 doses by Memorial Day.