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Rural COVID related deaths are dropping

COVID-related deaths in rural America are dropping. A report by the Daily Yonder says they dropped by one-third last week, the first significant decline in more than a month.

Rural counties across the country had just over 24-hundred deaths from COVID-19 last week after four consecutive weeks before that of around 36-hundred deaths.

The number of new cases in rural counties has dropped 75% from the peak of 230-thousand cases in the first full week of January.

Deaths from COVID in urban areas last week also dropped by about a third.