Tarrant County COVID-19 community level changes to high

Your Wednesday Afternoon Headlines, July 6th, 2022

TARRANT COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) - Tarrant County Public Health announced Wednesday that the COVID-19 community level has been changed to high.

TCPH recommends that individuals wear a mask when indoors and social distance, get vaccinated and boosted.

A few weeks ago, FDA and CDC approved the COVID-19 vaccine for children as young as 6-months-old.

This comes shortly after Dallas County announced that their COVID-19 risk level was moved up a notch to yellow.

Collin County also recently increased COVID-19 risk level.

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