COVID-19: One More Death, 687 New Confirmed Cases

Meanwhile, there have been 42 new confirmed COVID-19 cases that are variants of concern for a total of 158 cases.

The county said that the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations Monday was 486 patients.

The province has now recorded an average of 500 cases per day over the last week, up from a recent low of 407 per day as of February 17. The incidence rate is calculated by taking each county's average number of cases per day over a seven-day period and dividing it by the county's total population.

Dr. Natalie Bridger, the health authority's clinical chief for infection prevention and control, told reporters the staff member's "pretest probability" of having COVID-19 was low, and that the person continued working while waiting for results of their COVID-19 test.

Leesburg up 2 for a total of 3,820.

According to state figures - which are typically a day ahead of county numbers - there were 1,502 COVID-19 patients in L.A. County hospitals as of Monday, well below the peak of more than 8,000 patients in early January.

Professor Pete Lunn, Head of the Behavioural Research Unit, ESRI said that fresh data shows that while people are finding it tough going, the large majority (79%) believe that preventing the spread of Covid-19 is more important than the burden of restrictions.

The Grundy County Health Department announces no new cases of COVID-19 were reported over the weekend.

With this, the total number of cases reported in the country now stands at 1,10,96,731, including 1,68,627 active cases and 1,07,86,457 recoveires. After the dump, the rate has fallen to 7.9% on Sunday and to 7.6% on Monday.

The VDH COVID-19 vaccine dashboard is reporting that 1,296,491 Virginians have received at least one dose of the two-shot vaccines now in circulation - 15.2 percent of the state's population.

Only 10 of the identified variant cases are now active.

Brown County's 18.4% of residents with first doses is the highest percentage in the region.

The death toll now stands at 1,57,157.

As of today there are 540 people in Ireland hospitalised due to COVID-19, of whom 120 are in the ICU. There is one resident with COVID-19 who is now hospitalized.

State-supported sites outside of Cook County have begun taking appointments for the Phase 1B "plus" group.

- 336,870 first doses will have been allocated this week.

The Governor said he intends to increase child care capacity to regular group size on March 15 if positive trends continue.