COVID-19 Community Levels is a tool to help communities decide what prevention steps to take based on the latest data.

According to the CDC’s COVID-19 Community Levels, high level counties are Apache, Clark, Coconino, Gila, La Paz, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Pinal, and Yavapai.

Medium levels counties are Cochise, Pima, Washington and and Yuma.

Low level counties are Graham, Greenlee, and Santa Cruz.

At all levels including the low level, prevention steps include:

• Stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines

• Get tested if you have symptoms

At the medium level, if you are at high risk for severe illness, talk to your healthcare provider about whether you need to wear a mask and take other precautions.

At the high level, wear a mask indoors in public. Additional precautions may be needed for people at high risk for severe illness.

Levels can be low, medium, or high and are determined by looking at hospital beds being used, hospital admissions, and the total number of new COVID-19 cases in an area.

State of the virus

Update for June 29

• With new reports of daily cases largely flat in recent days, the national outlook remains stable, as it has been for several weeks.

• The average number of cases announced each day in the U.S. has stayed relatively consistent this month, never falling below 95,000 or rising above 115,000. In many of the states currently seeing the largest per-capita outbreaks, conditions are similarly static: Cases have fallen by just 2 percent in Florida over the past two weeks, and by 6 percent in hard-hit Puerto Rico.

• Regional differences are notable. In most of the Northeast, cases have decreased continuously throughout the month of June. In the South, many states have seen cases double or triple in the same time.

• Hospitalizations have increased modestly throughout the month, though they remain low. Just over 32,000 people are in American hospitals with the coronavirus on an average day, and fewer than 4,000 are in intensive care.

• Fatality data has been volatile in recent weeks because of delays in reporting after holidays. Still, reports of new deaths remain below 400 a day, down from more than 2,600 a day at the height of the Omicron surge.