It seems as though the positivity rate, in regard to the Omicron COVID Variant, across the state of Alabama is finally on the decline – following a spike that sent shockwaves across the area.

Average daily cases fell in almost every Alabama county over the last week, with the statewide positivity rate also galling fast. plummeting.  That positivity rate, OR the % of COVID tests performed over a 7-day period that come back positive – fell to 35.4% as of Monday, the last day for which data was available.

That’s still significantly higher than at any point in the pandemic pre-omicron, but its  well below the all-time high of 45% set on January 19th.  The statewide rate has now fallen by nearly 9 percentage points in just over a week.

Alabama had been averaging around 8,700 new cases each day – however, that latest 7-day average represents a 35% drop in the last eleven days.  The huge fall in cases is happening across the entire state with only a couple of exceptions; the 7-day average fell in 62 of Alabama’s 67 counties over the last week, increasing only in a cluster of counties in the Montgomery area and in Cleburne County in northeast Alabama.

(AL.COM/www.al.com)