UPDATE/EDIT The North Region will move into Phase 2 Sunday, as are seven of eight of the state's regions. In the North Region all four metrics have downward trends. Residents of Skagit County and the North Region of the state’s Roadmap to Recovery from COVID-19 were showing infection at high levels with the coronavirus at high rates based on mid-January data, but infections dropped dramatically the last half of January.

Friday the state Department of Health released its update for Feb. 1-11 Roadmap to Recovery from COVID-19, having moved to bi-weekly reports. That report aggregated second half...