The Imperial County Health Department reports a slight drop in the number of COVID-19 infections in the Valley.

The numbers issued on Thursday morning show that there are now 304 active cases of the coronavirus in the county. That's a slight drop from the 336 reported a week ago. There has been 1 more death attributed to the disease raising that number to 935. Imperial County continues to show better than 95% of the persons in the Valley have been vaccinated. According to the Health Department, most infections from variants of concern in the county have been unvaccinated individuals. 28% are children under 12 years of age and 27% of the infections are asylum seekers.