The COVID-19 case rate has dropped in nearly every part of the state, with all of Idaho’s 44 counties now boasting a 7-day rolling average case rate below 20 cases per one hundred thousand people.

Last week, 4.3 percent of COVID tests performed in Idaho came back positive. That’s the lowest positivity rate Idaho has seen since June.

But variants continue to spread, and the UK variant continues to be the most prevalent. This week, the first instance of the so-called Brazil variant was found in an Elmore County patient.

In the last week, Idaho surpassed the one million mark for COVID vaccine doses administered. As of Friday, 603,000 Idahoans had received at least one dose of the vaccine, and 486,000 are fully vaccinated.

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare has lifted the requirement that vaccine recipients either live or work in the state to get a vaccine here.