More than 15 percent of all positive cases of COVID-19 were breakthrough cases during November 15-21 in Pettis County.

According to Pettis County Health Center officials, as of November 29, there were a total of 7,765 as compared to 7,690 positive cases on November 22 and 7,607 reported November 15. This is an increase of 75 cases in the past week and 158 cases in the past two weeks.

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services’ (DHSS) website is reporting Pettis County has a positivity rate of 8.3 percent for the past seven days, which is a decrease from 8.6 percent for the last week with PCR testing.

This week, there were 349 PCR tests and 262 antigen tests for a total of 611. Last week there were 967 tests.

Vaccine breakthrough rates for the week of November 15-21 was 13 out of 83, which is 15.6 percent or 84.4 percent not vaccinated.