RICHMOND, Va. (WDBJ) – The Virginia Department of Health reports 327,993 total cases of COVID-19 in the commonwealth on Friday, Dec. 25, dating back to the start of the March pandemic. That’s 4,078 more than the 323,915 reported Thursday, a smaller increase than Thursday’s 4,782 new cases.
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4,070,000 PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests have been conducted with the same number reported Thursday, with a positivity rate of 11.5 percent in the past week, also the same number reported Thursday.
Friday, there have been 4,820 registered coronavirus-related deaths in the Commonwealth since the start of the pandemic. That’s up from 4,791 reported Thursday.
2,478 people in Virginia have been hospitalized as of Friday with confirmed or test-pending cases of COVID-19, down from 2,577 reported Thursday.
Since the start of the pandemic, 29,131 COVID patients have been released from hospitals in Virginia. That’s according to the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association, which gets a daily report from Commonwealth hospitals.
These hospital numbers differ from those reported by VDH, which only collects hospital admission status at the time each case is examined by VDH, and is an underrepresentation of Virginia hospital admissions.
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All new confirmed cases from statewide health departments don’t appear on the state list until the next day for the rest of the day, as the official numbers are only updated once per day, with a 5 p.m. cut-off point per day for new cases listed on the The next day’s list will be displayed.
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