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Henrico County recorded its highest single-day COVID-19 case count Monday – 81 – as its moving 7-day positivity percentage approached the state average of 7.5%.
The 81 new cases reported Monday in Henrico by the Virginia Department of Health topped the previous one-day high of 76, reported May 30. In the past four days, the VDH has reported 232 confirmed cases – the most in a four-day period since 234 were reported Memorial Day weekend.
Henrico’s 7-day positivity percentage rose to 7.1% July 23 – the most recent day for which that average has been calculated. Henrico’s average had fallen as low as 4.6% July 6 before rising again – likely in part because of a mass outbreak of the virus at the county’s jails, where a total of 198 inmates and seven jail employees have tested positive.
County officials reported Friday that only 70 inmates still were testing positive following the latest round of tests there. Most of the inmates who have tested positive have not been symptomatic, officials said. The county has conducted 1,311 tests of inmates, as well as 167 of staff members, since July 5. In total, the county's two jails have 1,152 inmates, and some have been tested multiple times.
In total, only 3 new hospitalizations associated with the virus have been reported since Friday in Henrico, bringing to 303 the total number reported during the pandemic.
One new death in Henrico was attributed to the virus during the weekend, bringing the county’s total to 178 – about 120 of which have occurred among residents of long-term care facilities, according to VDH data.
