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Roanoke Valley sees another double digit increase in new coronavirus cases Coronavirus Covid-19 Cases

Roanoke Valley sees another double digit increase in new coronavirus cases

Web Staff August 21, 2020

According to the latest numbers released this morning from the Virginia Department of Health there are 40...

Roanoke Valley sees another decrease in the number of new coronavirus cases Coronavirus Covid-19 Cases

Roanoke Valley sees another decrease in the number of new coronavirus cases

Web Staff August 19, 2020

According to the latest numbers released this morning from the Virginia Department of Health there are 2...

Roanoke Valley sees slight uptick in number of new coronavirus cases Coronavirus Covid-19 Cases

Roanoke Valley sees slight uptick in number of new coronavirus cases

Web Staff August 18, 2020

According to the latest numbers released this morning from the Virginia Department of Health there are 9...

Roanoke Valley sees double digit increase in number of new coronavirus cases Coronavirus Covid-19 Cases

Roanoke Valley sees double digit increase in number of new coronavirus cases

Web Staff August 17, 2020

According to the latest numbers released this morning from the Virginia Department of Health there are 34...

Social distancing at the beach: some SML visitors are turned away Smith Mountain Lake

Social distancing at the beach: some SML visitors are turned away

Evan Jones August 13, 2020

Officials at Smith Mountain Lake State Park say the visitors this summer have uniformly been on their...

Why are Roanoke City and Roanoke County back to school plans different? Virginia Coronavirus COVID

Why are Roanoke City and Roanoke County back to school plans different?

Gene Marrano August 11, 2020

During her weekly teleconference today Dr. Molly O’Dell with the Virginia Department of Health was asked about...

Roanoke Valley sees another increase in number of new coronavirus cases Coronavirus Covid-19 Cases

Roanoke Valley sees another increase in number of new coronavirus cases

Web Staff August 11, 2020

According to the latest numbers released this morning from the Virginia Department of Health there are 21...

Virginia Tech has own lab to test students for COVID-19 COVID-19 Coronavirus Testing

Virginia Tech has own lab to test students for COVID-19

Evan Jones August 10, 2020

Virginia Tech is preparing to test every student living on campus for COVID-19 — and unlike most...

Statewide COVID numbers jump from “data backlog” Virginia Coronavirus COVID

Statewide COVID numbers jump from “data backlog”

Web Staff August 7, 2020

NEWS RELEASE: (Richmond, Va.) — Today, the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) announced that the COVID-19 data numbers...

Roanoke City’s overall Coronavirus case count reaches 1,000 Coronavirus Covid-19 Cases

Roanoke City’s overall Coronavirus case count reaches 1,000

Web Staff August 7, 2020

According to the latest numbers released this morning from the Virginia Department of Health there are 65...

Roanoke Valley sees double digit increase in new coronavirus cases Coronavirus Covid-19 Cases

Roanoke Valley sees double digit increase in new coronavirus cases

Web Staff August 6, 2020

According to the latest numbers released this morning from the Virginia Department of Health there are 68...

Virginia first state to try pandemic app from Apple, Google CORONAVIRUS

Virginia first state to try pandemic app from Apple, Google

AP August 5, 2020

Virginia has rolled out a smartphone app to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed...

Two new Roanoke medic trucks arrive equipped for COVID era

Evan Jones August 5, 2020

Roanoke Fire-EMS now has two new medic trucks in service, and they were ordered at a fortunate...

Roanoke Valley sees double digit increase in new coronavirus cases Coronavirus Covid-19 Cases

Roanoke Valley sees double digit increase in new coronavirus cases

Web Staff August 5, 2020

According to the latest numbers released this morning from the Virginia Department of Health there are 28...

How effective are face coverings against COVID-19? The questions remain for some

Gene Marrano August 5, 2020

Questions remain in the minds of some about the effectiveness of face coverings to stop the spread...