After Two-Month Decline, Johns Hopkins University Data Shows COVID Cases on Rise Again Across Country

COVID-19 cases are again on the rise across the country, after a two month decline, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

At the height of the previous omicron surge, reported daily cases reached into the hundreds of thousands. On April 14, the seven-day rolling average for daily new cases rose to 39,521, up from 30,724 two weeks earlier, according to data from Johns Hopkins collected by the Associated Press.

The increase is being attributed to a sub-variant of the virus’s Omicron variant, known as BA.2.