Nearly 300 COVID-19 patients discharged last week; Virginia hospitalizations down 17%

RICHMOND, Va. — COVID-19 hospitalizations within the Commonwealth decreased over the previous week, in keeping with knowledge from the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Affiliation (VHHA).

As of Friday, there have been 248 hospitalized sufferers confirmed optimistic for COVID-19, which is down from 298 (-50) final Friday, in keeping with the VHHA.

VHHA’s 7-day shifting common of present COVID-19 hospitalizations sat at 275 Friday. That’s down 50 from 325 final Friday. That quantity was 386 the Friday earlier than and 433 the earlier week.

Moreover, almost 300 further COVID-19 sufferers have been discharged from Virginia hospitals over the previous week, in keeping with the VHHA.

The VHHA reported a complete of 138,297 hospitalized COVID-19 sufferers have been discharged as of Friday, a rise from 138,003 (+294) sufferers from final Friday’s replace.

The information is a glance into COVID-19 recoveries in Virginia. Whereas the information is not a precise restoration statistic, the discharge class exhibits what number of COVID-19 sufferers have been hospitalized and launched.

The VHHA’s on-line knowledge dashboard supplies up-to-date statistics each day on the variety of COVID-19 hospitalizations throughout the Commonwealth.