Henrico's COVID-19 case rate continues to drop

Henrico County reported 61 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, according to the Virginia Department of Health, and the county’s seven-day moving average of new daily cases continued to fall, reaching 67 daily cases today.

There were six hospitalizations related to the virus and seven new virus-related deaths in the county reported by the VDH. The death count was the lowest in the county in more than a week, after the VDH began processing backlogged death certificates from the post-holiday surge.

The average positivity rate of testing encounters in Henrico County continues to decrease, according to the VDH. The seven-day average fell to 6.8 percent among PCR tests and 6 percent among antigen rapid tests, the lowest rates this year, as of Feb. 26.

Henrico has the third-highest count of outbreaks in the state, according to VDH data, with 174 reported incidents where two or more cases were discovered to be related. Exactly 3,398 cases in the county have been associated with these outbreaks.

More than 2 million total doses of the COVID-19 vaccine now have been administered statewide, according to VDH data, with more than 74,000 coming from Henrico County. Almost 50,000 Henricoans have been vaccinated with at least one dose and 25,000 of them have been fully vaccinated so far.

As of Feb. 26, an average of 47,088 doses are being administered each day after a boom in Virginia's vaccination efforts, according to VDH data. The majority of these administrations are with the Moderna vaccine, with Pfizer's following closely behind. Vaccination data can take up to 72 hours to be reported, causing the average to lag behind a few days.