Governor Kay Ivey issued her twenty-sixth supplemental emergency proclamation transitioning the state from an amended Safer at Home Order to a new Safer Apart Order, the third phase of COVID-19 pandemic health orders. Masks will no longer be mandated statewide, but individuals are strongly encouraged to wear a mask or other facial covering when in public and in close contact with other people. This order will end Monday, May 31, 2021, and the state of emergency will end Tuesday, July 6, 2021

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Q: What is the fatality rate?

Because many mild or asymptomatic COVID\-19 infections go unreported, it is thought the case fatality ratio is lower than 2%, [possibly](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/health/coronavirus-death-rate.html) somewhere between 0.5% and 1%; but that would still mean that COVID\-19 is many more times deadly than the flu, and very dangerous. "In the United States, COVID\-19 now [kills](https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-fatality/covid-19-fatality-rate-down-30-since-april-study-finds-idUKL1N2HY2E1) about 0.6% of people infected with the virus, compared with around 0.9% early in the pandemic." For the most recent counts of confirmed COVID\-19 cases, deaths, and recoveries, visit this [dashboard](https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6). Updated 2 December 2020

What is the fatality rate?

Because many mild or asymptomatic COVID-19 infections go unreported, it is thought the case fatality ratio is lower than 2%, possibly somewhere between 0.5% and 1%; but that would still mean that COVID-19 is many more times deadly than the flu, and very dangerous.

"In the United States, COVID-19 now kills about 0.6% of people infected with the virus, compared with around 0.9% early in the pandemic."

For the most recent counts of confirmed COVID-19 cases, deaths, and recoveries, visit this dashboard.

Updated 2 December 2020