PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Virginia’s continuing to see record-breaking numbers of COVID metrics with omicron surging.
Nearly 17,000 cases are being reported each day (an undercount because of the current lack of testing/unreported “mild” and asymptomatic cases) and nearly 3,700 are currently hospitalized (a record for total patients).
The vast majority of those hospitalized are unvaccinated.
On Monday, Gov. Ralph Northam announced a state of emergency in his last COVID briefing of office to help with bed capacity and to bring in out-of-state providers to help strained hospital systems.
In Hampton Roads, testing is being expanded on the Southside and Peninsula, with the Military Circle Mall site now offering testing multiple days a week by appointment.
Statewide metrics
- New cases: +15,463 (1,278,739 total), 16,861 on average (highest levels of pandemic)
- Deaths: +9 (15,671 total), has been down (9 per day on average now) but VDH says there’s a reporting delay this month as it applies new federal guidelines for COVID-19 associated deaths
- Current hospitalizations: +130 patients (3,681 total currently and 3,271 7-day average, both records) ICU numbers around 2020-21 surge (567 in ICU now vs. upper 500s in winter surge), ventilator usage (314 patients) is lower than 2020-21 surge (topped out around 350 patients) but climbing
- (2,501 total beds still available statewide, 399 for ICU
- Test positivity: 35.6%, rising and at record levels, up from 5-6% last month
- Vaccine doses administered: 14,286,360
- Percent of population with at least one dose: 78% (6,661,165)
- Percent of adults (18+) with at least one dose: 89.3%
- Percent of population fully vaccinated: 68.1% (5,809,702)
- Percent of adults fully vaccinated: 78.3%
- People vaccinated with booster/third dose: 2,211,810
Local cases (additions are totals from Saturday, Sunday and Monday combined)
- Accomack: 5,205 cases, 351 hospitalized, 84 deaths (+278 cases, +2 hospitalized)
- Chesapeake: 38,664 cases, 1,460 hospitalized, 382 deaths (1,849 cases, +48 hospitalized)
- Franklin: 1,981 cases, 81 hospitalized, 44 deaths (+71 cases, +2 hospitalized)
- Gloucester: 5,193 cases, 95 hospitalized, 83 deaths (+229 cases, +1 hospitalized)
- Hampton: 21,178 cases, 931 hospitalized, 257 deaths (+1577 cases, +102 hospitalized)
- Isle of Wight: 5,725 cases, 271 hospitalized, 93 deaths (+221 cases, +15 hospitalized)
- James City County: 10,587 cases, 321 hospitalized, 100 deaths (+1029 cases, +20 hospitalized)
- Mathews: 1,140 cases, 30 hospitalized, 24 deaths (+42 cases)
- Newport News: 28,256 cases, 951 hospitalized, 320 deaths (+2191 cases, +70 hospitalized)
- Norfolk: 32,679 cases, 1,783 hospitalized, 370 deaths (+1745 cases, +99 hospitalized)
- Northampton: 1,489 cases, 115 hospitalized, 49 deaths (+88 cases, +3 hospitalized)
- Poquoson: 1,767 cases, 42 hospitalized, 23 deaths (+129 cases, +4 hospitalized)
- Portsmouth: 16,881 cases, 1049 hospitalized, 256 deaths (+ 781 cases, +32 hospitalized)
- Southampton: 2,713 cases, 95 hospitalized, 75 deaths (+56 cases, +3 hospitalized, +1 death)
- Suffolk: 14,563 cases, 872 hospitalized, 259 deaths (+696 cases, +42 hospitalized, +1 death)
- Virginia Beach: 69,171 cases, 3,232 hospitalized, 605 deaths (+3642 cases, +145 hospitalized)
- Williamsburg: 1,405 cases, 54 hospitalized, 13 deaths (+21 cases, +7 hospitalized)
- York: 7,464 cases, 159 hospitalized, 87 deaths (+509 cases, +7 hospitalized)