AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin Community Well being introduced Monday night it is shifting the thresholds for the area’s COVID-19 danger-based pointers once again thanks to the omicron variant surge.

Omicron is now the dominant variant of coronavirus in the state, accounting for 73% of new infections final week. APH cited info from the University of Texas at Austin’s COVID-19 Modeling Consortium for the improve in its staging thresholds, which said omicron could direct to the worst wave of COVID-19 nevertheless.

APH determines which stage Austin-Travis County is in partly by the seven-day relocating ordinary of new hospital admissions in the location. The new staging thresholds launched Monday by APH are as follows, with changes to the goalposts of at the very least two stages:

• Phase 1 – -4
• Phase 2 – 5-14
• Phase 3 – 15-24 (formerly 15-29)
• Stage 4 – 25-50 (beforehand 30-50)
• Phase 5 – >50

As of Monday, the 7-day moving typical of new clinic admissions in Austin-Travis County is 15 — the reduced conclude of the Phase 3 threshold.

Stage 3 of the COVID-19 hazard-dependent recommendations suggests that absolutely-vaccinated, reduced-danger people need to don masks at indoor gatherings with men and women outside of their household and though traveling. If you are partially vaccinated or unvaccinated and are also very low threat, Phase 3 recommends that you dress in a mask in all circumstances and get totally vaccinated.

The below graphic demonstrates all of the suggestions for vaccinated persons.

APH is setting up to maintain a media briefing Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. to remedy any queries about the new thresholds. The press meeting will be reside streamed on KXAN.com and on the KXAN Facebook website page.