Washoe County is back on the “watch list” of the state COVID-19 Task Force. The Task Forces uses three criteria to determine which counties are most at risk for COVID transmission: Positive cases per 100,000 population; Positivity rate; Number of tests conducted. Washoe County was removed from the list when the COVID test positivity rate dropped below the threshold of 7.0. But for the week of September 14th, the positivity rate jumped from 6.9 percent to 7.8 percent, putting Washoe County back in violation. Two days, in particular, saw large jumps in positive cases: 111 cases on September 16th and 166 cases on September 17th.