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Virginia Overview

Last updated January 18, 2021 5:00 pm ET
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Key Metrics

Solid line represents Virginia 7-day average

New tests Total PCR tests (test encounters)

New tests is changing up. The most recent value for New tests was 25428 on Jan 19, and the earlist value for New tests was 19962 on Oct 22. The highest recent value for New tests was 45333 on Jan 18.The lowest recent value for New tests was 19827 on Jan 12. Access all chart data

New cases

Cases is changing up. The most recent value for Cases was 4526 on Jan 19, and the earlist value for Cases was 1332 on Oct 22. The highest recent value for Cases was 9914 on Jan 17.The lowest recent value for Cases was 1584 on Dec 26. Access all chart data

Current hospitalizations

Hospitalization is changing up. The most recent value for Hospitalization was 3173 on Jan 19, and the earlist value for Hospitalization was 1109 on Oct 22. The highest recent value for Hospitalization was 3209 on Jan 13.The lowest recent value for Hospitalization was 2166 on Dec 22. Access all chart data

New deaths

New deaths is changing up. The most recent value for New deaths was 59 on Jan 19, and the earlist value for New deaths was 9 on Oct 22. The highest recent value for New deaths was 84 on Jan 12.The lowest recent value for New deaths was 2 on Jan 10. Access all chart data
Total cases
451,076
Confirmed cases
366,159
Probable cases
84,917
New cases today4,526
Change over 7 days10.6%+
Total tests
(test encounters)
4,878,157
Total tests
(specimens)
Not Reported
Total tests
(people)
Not Reported
Total tests (specimens)
899,414
Total tests (people)
Not Reported

Warning: Antigen reporting may significantly understate the true number of tests administered

Total tests (specimens)
199,956
Total tests (people)
Not Reported
Now hospitalized
3,173
Now in ICU
588
Now on ventilator
347
Ever hospitalized
20,066
Ever in ICU
Not Reported
Ever on ventilator
Not Reported

Hospitalization (HHS data)

See this HHS hospitalization data on a map.

Now hospitalized (confirmed + suspected)
3,100
Now hospitalized (confirmed only)
2,725
Now in ICU (confirmed + suspected)
533

This data is published by HHS.

Data as of
Hospital discharges
35,752
Total deaths
5,798
Probable deaths
714
Confirmed deaths
5,084
Total cases
23,427
Total deaths
2,610
Number of facilities affected
782
Percent of state deaths
from LTC facilities
45%
New cases since Jan 77.2%
New deaths since Jan 75.9%

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Data as of

Race & ethnicity data

We compute the number of cases and deaths per 100k people for each race and ethnicity.

These numbers show the scale of outcomes compared to the size of each group’s population. These are not the number of cases or deaths, rather the proportion of each demographic group who have been affected.

Race & ethnicity: cases per capita

Cases per 100,000 people
American Indian / Alaska Native
3,012
Asian / Pacific Islander
2,610
Black / African American
4,565
Hispanic / Latino
8,155
White
3,315

(All data is calculated)

Data as of

Race & ethnicity: deaths per capita

Deaths per 100,000 people
American Indian / Alaska Native
55
Asian / Pacific Islander
38
Black / African American
84
Hispanic / Latino
54
White
66

(All data is calculated)

Data as of

Our latest tweets about Virginia

Our twitter handle is @COVID19Tracking@COVID19Tracking

Twitter
We have seen nationwide decreases in all the 7-day averages of all four metrics. Many states are reporting a decrease in the number of new cases per million people, though CA, VA and SC reported more than 1,000 new cases per million today.

January 17, 2021

Twitter
IL and WI both reported over 10k cases today. VA reported ~2.7k cases due to a technical issue over the weekend.

November 17, 2020

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Update for our data users - we continued to implement changes to our original totalTestResults API field, resulting in a ~600k cumulative test increase since March. We updated test totals for 14 states: AK, AL, AR, AS, CA, DC, GA, ID, KY, MN, NH, SD, VA, and WA.

September 18, 2020

Twitter
Our daily update is published. States reported 749k tests, 44k cases, and 1,129 deaths. Virginia did not publish new data in time for today's update.

August 27, 2020

Twitter
Shoutout to the local reporters across the country who have gotten so much of this information into the public record, beginning with @MelLeonor_ of @RTDNEWS in Virginia.

May 20, 2020

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