Every 39 minutes, a person died from COVID-19 in Virginia last week, according to reports from the state health department Monday.
The state’s COVID-19 numbers continued to climb, with 35,850 new cases over the past week and 261 deaths, according to the Virginia Department of Health’s Jan. 11 update.
The current seven-day positivity rate is 16.7%, up nearly one percentage point from last week, and the average daily number of new cases over the past seven days was 5,121, a new record in the state. Virginia has recorded 403,386 cases and 5,393 deaths since March 2020.
