Virginia’s COVID-19 numbers continue to climb, with 26,279 more cases and 206 deaths recorded last week, according to the Virginia Department of Health’s Dec. 14 update.
The state has had 285,149 cases and 4,414 deaths in total as of Dec. 14. The seven-day average number of new daily cases is 3,754, with 44.1 new daily cases per 100,000 people, VDH reports.
Monday marked the start of a new set of statewide restrictions, which Gov. Ralph Northam announced last week, including a nightly curfew from midnight to 5 a.m. through the end of January. Virginia’s COVID rates are lower than most of the rest of the country, which has recorded more than 16 million cases and nearly 300,000 deaths, but the state has seen significant increases, particularly in Southwest Virginia, where positivity rates continue to exceed 20%. As of Dec. 11, the state’s seven-day positivity rate was at 10.9%, an increase of .1% from Dec. 7.
