Puerto Rico's COVID positivity rate jumps from 2% to 33%
Puerto Rico's COVID-19 positivity rate spiked to 33% on Monday, according to the island’s health department COVID dashboard.
This is a 16-fold jump from the 2% positivity rate reported just two weeks ago, which was a record low.
Scientist Mónica Feliú-Mójer from Ciencia PR, an organization that focuses on scientific education in Puerto Rico, said the rapid increase is due to many factors, including people's behavior.
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She said people gathering over the holidays, while a highly transmissible variant continued to spread, led to the spike in the positivity rate.
“The holidays are culturally very, very important and everyone thought this would be a different Christmas. People were eager to get together,” Feliú-Mójer told ABC News.
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-ABC News' Cristina Corujo