COVID hospitalizations up in Virginia

RICHMOND, Va. (WDBJ) – The Virginia Division of Well being is reporting 1,844,313, instances of COVID-19 throughout the commonwealth as of Tuesday, June 21, 2022, courting to the start of the pandemic in March 2020. That’s up 2,527 from the 1,841,786 reported Monday, a much bigger enhance than Monday’s 1,733 new instances.

556 folks throughout Virginia have been hospitalized as of Tuesday with confirmed or test-pending instances of COVID-19, up from the 536 reported Monday. 112,066 COVID sufferers have been launched from hospitals in Virginia because the starting of the pandemic. That’s based on the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Affiliation, which will get a every day report from hospitals across the commonwealth.

The hospital numbers are completely different from these reported by VDH, which solely gathers hospitalization standing on the time every case is investigated by VDH and is an under-representation of Virginia hospitalizations.

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For the reason that pandemic started, 14,108,413 PCR (polymerase chain response) exams have been carried out in Virginia as of Tuesday, with a 17.9% positivity fee from exams during the last week, the identical because the quantity reported Monday for the earlier seven days.

As of Tuesday, there have been 20,467 recorded coronavirus-related deaths within the commonwealth because the pandemic’s starting, up from 20,455 reported Monday.

New confirmed instances from well being departments all through the state the remainder of the day received’t present up till at the very least the next day on the state listing, because the official numbers are solely up to date as soon as a day, with a 5 p.m. cutoff every day for brand spanking new instances to be mirrored on the following day’s listing.

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