County, city report 109 additional COVID cases

August 09, 2022

Wise County saw 99 new COVID-19 cases between last Wednesday and yesterday.

The county’s total number of COVID cases since spring 2020 increased from 11,659 to 11,758 in five days, according to the Virginia Department of Health.
The county’s total number of COVID-related deaths remained at 203.

The health department’s cumulative positive case count for Norton increased by 10, from 1,481 to 1,491.
The number of total deaths in the city remained at 22.

The latest sub-variant of last year’s omicron variant is spreading rapidly, although death rates have slowed.

Statewide, the total number of confirmed cases since the pandemic began rose from 1,400,631 last Wednesday to 1,409,699 yesterday, an increase of 9,068. The number of “probable” cases in Virginia rose from 567,698 last Wednesday to 572,059 yesterday, an increase of 4,361.
During the same period, the number of confirmed deaths increased by 46 to 17,548. The number of probable COVID-19 deaths increased by 34 to 3,527.