Va. Dec. 7 COVID-19 update: 3,817 new cases, 11,490 in last 3 days; Hampton Roads’ positivity rate up to 10%

Posted: Dec 7, 2020 / 09:44 AM EST

Updated: Dec 7, 2020 / 10:09 AM EST

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Virginia’s average of new coronavirus cases has shot up in the past several days, up to 3,000-plus cases per day on average for the first time.

Virginia added 3,817 cases on Monday. That’s the third straight day of reported cases above 3,000, though the Virginia Department of Health said Saturday’s reported cases did include some backlogged data. The numbers come just over a week after the Thanksgiving holiday.

Statewide numbers:

New cases: (+3,817, 258,870 total), trending up overall, at record levels
Case incidence rate: 32.1 per 100K, trending up overall
New deaths (+8, 4,208 total), steady overall
Current hospitalizations (-84 patients, 1,885 total), still trending up overall
Testing (10.8% 7-day average of positive tests), trending up overall, Virginia’s testing average down by several thousand tests recently

Some small good news is that COVID-19 hospitalizations statewide went down by several dozen patients between Sunday and Monday, with the number of cumulative patient discharges up to 25,401. That’s 166 more patients than Sunday’s total of 25,235, via the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association.

Still, hospitalizations are around record levels and trending up overall. ICU occupancy statewide is at 75%. Hampton Roads is reporting 18 new patients, up to 366 total.

The United States as a whole is reporting record levels of COVID-19 deaths, at more 2,100 per day on average. Virginia’s deaths are still below previous peaks, but there’s been a sustained, elevated average around 20 deaths per day recently. Most of those deaths are outside of Hampton Roads.

Our daily update is published. States reported 1.6 million tests, 177k cases, and 1,138 deaths. 101,487 people are currently hospitalized with COVID, another new record. Averaged across the last 7 days, each of our core metrics is at record levels. pic.twitter.com/z9RbCtA8Zo
— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) December 7, 2020

Local cases

Hampton Roads and the Eastern Shore are seeing upticks in nearly all metrics, and the region’s positivity rate is back up to 10% on average, showing uncontrolled virus spread.

Accomack: 1,408 cases, 109 hospitalized, 21 deaths (+18 cases)
Chesapeake: 7017 cases, 551 hospitalized, 83 deaths (+53 cases, +1 hospitalized, +2 deaths)
Franklin: 573 cases, 28 hospitalized, 17 deaths (+10 cases)
Gloucester: 559 cases, 22 hospitalized, 5 deaths (+4 cases)
Hampton: 2,975 cases, 144 hospitalized, 35 deaths (+38 cases, +2 hospitalized)
Isle of Wight: 1,101 cases, 56 hospitalized, 27 deaths (+9 cases)
James City County: 1,273 cases, 78 hospitalized, 22 deaths (+9 cases)
Mathews: 172 cases, 13 hospitalized, 1 death (no change)
Newport News: 4,305 cases, 169 hospitalized, 56 deaths (+50 cases)
Norfolk: 6,894 cases, 475 hospitalized, 93 deaths (+111 cases, -1 hospitalized)
Northampton: 358 cases, 50 hospitalized, 31 deaths (+1 cases)
Poquoson: 212 cases, 4 hospitalized, 2 deaths (+14 cases)
Portsmouth: 3,380 cases, 360 hospitalized, 71 deaths (+41 cases)
Southampton: 1021 cases, 33 hospitalized, 40 deaths ( +3 cases)
Suffolk: 2,965 cases, 173 hospitalized, 80 deaths (+ 49 cases)
Virginia Beach: 11,965 cases, 565 hospitalized, 119 deaths (+187 cases)
Williamsburg: 309 cases, 22 hospitalized, 8 deaths ( +1 case)
York: 1007 cases, 31 hospitalized, 9 deaths (+15 cases)