New COVID-19 cases in Henrico continue gradual downward trend

New COVID-19 cases in Henrico County are down to an average of just 64 per day during the past week, according to Virginia Department of Health data.

The county reported 32 new cases Monday – typically the lowest case count of each week, because of reduced testing totals during the weekend. (The three days with the fewest new cases in the county since late July were the past three Mondays – Oct. 4, 11 and 18 – with 33 or fewer cases each day.)

There have been 26 new COVID-related deaths among Henrico citizens reported this month by the VDH – including two Friday and one each Saturday and Sunday – but four other deaths that had been attributed to the county were updated as part of a data correction by the VDH earlier this month. (If officials don’t immediately know the home locality of a victim, they initially attribute the death to the locality in which it occurred but update it later if that information becomes available.)

Henrico has reported four new virus-related hospitalizations since Friday.

Henrico’s seven-day positivity percentage among PCR testing encounters is 5.4% and among rapid testing encounters is 6%. Both are lower than the state averages.

More than 217,600 Henricoans have received at least one dose of COVID vaccine, while just more than 200,000 (or about 60.5% of the county’s residents) are now fully vaccinated.