RICHMOND, Va. (WDBJ) - The Virginia Department of Health is reporting 1,568 new cases of COVID-19 across the commonwealth as of Friday, November 6, signaling 188,770 total cases since the beginning of the pandemic in March. That’s up from 187,202 reported Thursday, and is a bigger increase than the 1,366-case increase reported from Wednesday to Thursday.
As of Friday, there are 3,682 recorded coronavirus-related deaths in the commonwealth since the pandemic’s beginning. 3,688 were reported Thursday. VDH says that’s because VDH “receives additional information about COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths every day. This new information may result in slight changes in previously reported case, hospitalization, or death counts.”
2,743,229 PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests have been conducted, with a 5.9 percent positive rate over the last week, up from the 5.8 percent reported Thursday.
15,125 of Virginia’s overall cases are considered “probable.”
1,057 people across Virginia are hospitalized as of Thursday with confirmed or test-pending cases of COVID-19, down from 1,064 reported Wednesday.
21,366 COVID patients have been released from hospitals in Virginia since the beginning of the pandemic. That’s according to the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association, which gets a daily report from hospitals around the commonwealth.
These hospital numbers are different from those reported by VDH, which only gathers hospitalization status at the time each case is investigated by VDH, and is an under-representation of Virginia hospitalizations.
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Any new confirmed cases from health departments throughout the state the rest of the day won’t show up until at least the following day on the state list, as the official numbers are only updated once a day, with a 5 p.m. cutoff each day for new cases to be reflected on the next day’s list.
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