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County's positivity rate is more than 3 times the world health organization recommedation... good evening, i'm bob cervera.

The st.

Joseph health department reports the county's positivity rate is more than 18-percent.

Kq2's ron johnson spoke to concerned city officials about what's going on: <<kq2's ron johnson reporting it's one of the newest ways to track the spread of covid-19 in the area the positivity rate is something that we have just recently started figuring the positivity rate compares the total number of people getting tested against positives tests, and like much of the others numbers we've been keeping tabs on since the start of the pandemic.

It too is up.

It had a pretty large jump this last week the latest data shows the rate at 18.25 percent, compare that to 9.7 percent at the start of september and just 2.7 percent in mid august ideally we want the number under 10, even lower if we can and we're almost twice that now so it is of great concern.

At city hall, the mayor keeping focus on mosaic's numbers i'm looking at our trend lines and also the number of hospitalizations and both have gone up the trend he says has him strongly considering extending the city's mask ordinance for at least another month taking advice from local experts.

Hither to fore they've always said you know, extend the mask order you know keep it going.

I'm going to ask the council monday night if they will approve a resolution of support he says it's the best way to protect the community from future spikes i'm just grateful the numbers aren't higher the fact that we're wearing the mask is mitigating the further rise of those numbers.

Both the mayor and the health department director say mask wearing is crucial to keeping the virus controlled in st.

Joseph and buchanan county.

The more we can get people to do this, the less people we're gonna have sick.

Ron johnson kq2 news>> thank you ron.

Whether you have symptoms or not -- you can get a free covid-19 test saturday october 10th in st.

Joseph... the clinic -- that's set up by missouri's department of health and senior services -- will be at krug park from 7am to 1pm.

Head over to the missouri community testing page, or call the missouri covid hotline at 1-877-435-8411 to register.