AUSTIN (KXAN) — A day just after Austin-Travis County introduced new COVID-19 enterprise orders, local health leaders are internet hosting a media Q&A.

The Q&A will just take area Friday Jan. 14 at 10 a.m. We count on to hear from Dr. Desmar Walkes, the community wellbeing authority, Adrienne Sturrup, the interim director of Austin General public Well being and other APH gurus.

Austin-Travis County is in Stage 5 danger-centered guidelines right now, the most restrictive tier. Those people guidelines endorse anyone who is out in community put on a mask regardless of vaccination position.

As of Thursday, there are 127 individuals in area-ICUs with COVID-19, 63 people are on a ventilator. Over the past 7 days much more than 6,000 people today in Austin-Travis County examined optimistic for the virus, according to Austin’s COVID-19 staging dashboard.

Austin’s group transmission fee (CTR), which is the range of people testing beneficial per 100,000 people, is at 1,233, which is significant. That fee is just a hair reduced than the CTR for the state of Texas.

The briefing will be streamed reside in this tale and on KXAN’s Facebook web page. This is a creating tale.