Health and Medicine
According to the latest numbers released this morning from the Virginia Department of Health there are 2 new probable or confirmed coronavirus cases being attributed to the Roanoke Valley. State Health officials report the cases are in Roanoke City, and in the city of Salem.
According to the latest numbers released this morning from the Virginia Department of Health there are 9 new probable or confirmed coronavirus cases being attributed to the Roanoke Valley. State Health officials report 2 new cases in Roanoke City, 5 new cases in Roanoke County, and 2 new cases in Salem.
According to the latest numbers released this morning from the Virginia Department of Health there are 34 new probable or confirmed coronavirus cases being attributed to the Roanoke Valley. 18 new cases in Roanoke City, 8 new cases in Roanoke County, 5 new cases in Salem and 3 new cases in Botetourt County.
Officials at Smith Mountain Lake State Park say the visitors this summer have uniformly been on their best behavior when it comes to social distancing. Park Manager Brian Heft says park the visitor count for the summer is about 14% higher than last year, and even though it may be an outdoor destination, there are social distancing regulations that still apply — and on a few occasions, they have had to turn aside visitors planning to hit the beach. More from WFIR’s Evan Jones:
Dr Molly O’Dell
During her weekly teleconference today Dr. Molly O’Dell with the Virginia Department of Health was asked about the difference in back-to school plans locally – why Roanoke City schools may be all-virtual for at least the first 9 weeks – while Roanoke County Public School students will be on-campus 2 days a week:
According to the latest numbers released this morning from the Virginia Department of Health there are 21 new probable or confirmed coronavirus cases attributed to the Roanoke Valley. State health officials report 17 new cases in Roanoke City, 2 new cases in both Roanoke County, and Salem.
Virginia Tech is preparing to test every student living on campus for COVID-19 — and unlike most places, it will have full control of the process from start to finish. VT has its own COVID-19 lab, one set up in April to help meet the regional demand. With the university’s move-in beginning Friday, it has amassed 10,000 test kits for all students living in campus housing. In a video released by Tech, Carla Finkielstein, who directs the Virginia Tech-Carilion School of Medicine’s Molecular Diagnostics Lab, says it can handle 1,000 tests a day. More from WFIR’s Evan Jones:
NEWS RELEASE: (Richmond, Va.) — Today, the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) announced that the COVID-19 data numbers that will be posted on Friday, August 7 will contain a significant increase due to a data backlog from earlier in the week.
Today’s data will indicate 2,015 new cases. This figure includes information that should have been reported on Wednesday and Thursday of this week as well as the regular numbers for Friday.
Late Thursday, VDH’s Office of Information Management, which helps manage VDH’s COVID-19 databases, identified and rectified the technical issue, which was a system performance configuration.
To follow the number of new cases by day of symptom onset, please refer to the graph, “Number of Cases by Date of Symptom Onset.”
According to the latest numbers released this morning from the Virginia Department of Health there are 65 new probable or confirmed coronavirus cases being attributed to the Roanoke Valley. 27 new cases in Roanoke City, 24 new cases in Roanoke County, 10 new cases in Botetourt County and 4 new cases in Salem. This comes a day after 68 cases were reported in the Roanoke Valley.
According to the latest numbers released this morning from the Virginia Department of Health there are 68 new probable or confirmed coronavirus cases being attributed to the Roanoke Valley. 41 new cases in Roanoke City, 11 new cases in Roanoke County, 7 new cases in Botetourt County and 9 new cases in Salem. This comes a day after 28 cases were reported in the Valley.