Virginia Jan. 25 COVID-19 update: 6,172 new cases after days of below average reporting, nearly all of Hampton Roads in 1b

Posted: Jan 25, 2021 / 11:00 AM EST

Updated: Jan 25, 2021 / 11:07 AM EST

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Virginia reported 6,172 new coronavirus cases on Monday, a disappointing development after about a week of lower than average cases. Those recent days may have made it seem like Virginia’s cases were plateauing or going down overall .

Monday’s increase could be due to some lag in reporting, but it appears Virginia will continue to see cases go up until about mid-February, according to the health department’s model through the University of Virginia. New coronavirus variants could change that projection however, with another version of the UVA model accounting for the variants showing cases increasing through April.

Statewide numbers

New cases: (+6,172, 478,619 total), back up after reporting down last week (4,581 per day on average)
Case incidence rate: 53.8 per 100K people, trending up overall but down recently
New deaths (+3, 6,081 total), trending up overall (49 per day on average)
Current hospitalizations (+42, 2,888 total), back down slightly but still near peak
Testing (12.6% 7-day average of positive tests), back down recently, averaging around 31K tests per day
Doses administered (522,853, 21,823 on average, 64,381 fully vaccinated
Doses distributed (1,105,700), only about 110,00 per week from federal government

Deaths are continuing to climb overall (49 per day), though reporting was low on Monday with 3 deaths. Hospitalizations have also gone down slightly recently, but remain high.

Meanwhile vaccine supply from the federal government to Virginia is not expected to increase much from the current 110,000 per week allotment until March. Hampton Roads overall has started 1b vaccinations, but again the supply is very limited. Portsmouth was the only health district in the commonwealth not in 1b as of Monday, but was expected to start on Tuesday.

It’s clear many more people are expected to get infected with the coronavirus in the coming months before vaccinations really start to made a major impact.

Nationwide, cases and hospitalizations have been down (mirroring Virginia’s metrics in ways), but the U.S. is still reporting 3,000-plus deaths per day.

Our daily update is published. States reported 1.7M tests, 143k cases, and 1,940 deaths. 110,628 people are currently hospitalized in the U.S., the fewest since December 14. pic.twitter.com/RW31vtEu5m
— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) January 24, 2021

Local cases

Positivity rates and overall virus levels have dropped almost across the board in the region, but still remain high.

Accomack: 2,272 cases, 155 hospitalized, 31 deaths (+23 cases)
Chesapeake: 14590 cases, 701 hospitalized, 120 deaths (+204 cases, +2 hospitalized)
Franklin: 818 cases, 43 hospitalized, 20 deaths (+6 cases)
Gloucester: 1,377 cases, 39 hospitalized, 19 deaths (+25 cases)
Hampton: 6,706 cases, 222 hospitalized, 60 deaths (+113 cases, +1 hospitalized)
Isle of Wight: 2,053 cases, 97 hospitalized, 35 deaths (+40 cases)
James City County: 3185 cases, 110 hospitalized, 37 deaths (+61 cases)
Mathews: 411 cases, 16 hospitalized, 6 deaths (+4 cases)
Newport News: 9034 cases, 239 hospitalized, 83 deaths (+216 cases, +2 hospitalized)
Norfolk: 12,117 cases, 662 hospitalized, 136 deaths (+137 cases, +2 hospitalized)
Northampton: 603 cases, 63 hospitalized, 33 deaths (+8 cases)
Poquoson: 551 cases, 16 hospitalized, 7 deaths (+8 cases)
Portsmouth: 6215 cases, 491 hospitalized, 96 deaths (+70 cases)
Southampton: 1,646 cases, 41 hospitalized, 46 deaths (+8 cases)
Suffolk: 5,390 cases, 284 hospitalized, 104 deaths (+62 cases, +4 hospitalized)
Virginia Beach: 24,600 cases, 1018 hospitalized, 194 deaths (+359 cases)
Williamsburg: 444 cases, 24 hospitalized, 8 deaths (+7 cases)
York: 2,347 cases, 41 hospitalized, 16 deaths (+60 cases)