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COVID-19 in Virginia: LIVE updates for Saturday, July 18

Posted at 9:47 AM, Jul 18, 2020
and last updated 2020-07-19 00:03:27-04

RICHMOND, Va. -- In an effort to provide accurate, easy-to-read information on the on-going COVID-19 outbreak and its impact on our community, WTVR.com will update this post with the day's local coronavirus headlines and statistics.

COVID-19 IN VIRGINIA (Scroll to bottom for U.S. stats)

Positive COVID-19 Cases: 76,373 (+940 from Friday)
People Hospitalized: 7,147 (+60 from Friday)
COVID-19-Linked Deaths: 2,025 (+12 from Friday)
Total Tests: 978,640 (14,418 from Friday)
All Health Districts Current 7-Day Positivity Rate Total: 7.5%

CITY/COUNTY-BY-COUNTY BREAKDOWN OF CASES

Accomack: 1,051 (+3)
Albemarle: 608 (+15)
Alleghany: 54
Alexandria: 2,540 (+17)
Amelia: 59
Amherst: 49 (+4)
Appomattox: 49 (+1)
Arlington: 2,726 (+22)
Augusta: 225 (+42)

Bath: 2
Bedford: 178 (+1)
Bland: 5
Bristol: 18 (+3)
Botetourt: 165
Brunswick: 150 (+4)
Buchanan: 54 (+2)
Buckingham: 579
Buena Vista City: 29 (+3)

Campbell: 74 (+1)
Caroline: 157 (+3)
Carroll: 275 (+7)
Charles City: 43 (+1)
Charlotte: 39
Charlottesville: 341 (+8)
Chesapeake: 1,612 (+52)
Chesterfield: 3,427 (+25)
Clarke: 61
Colonial Heights: 163
Covington: 6
Craig: 11 (+1)
Culpeper: 890 (+5)
Cumberland: 60

Danville: 169 (+12)
Dickenson: 9
Dinwiddie: 166 (+2)

Emporia: 151 (+3)
Essex: 68 (+1)

Fairfax: 14,798 (+67)
Fairfax City: 73
Falls Church: 54
Fauquier: 522 (+11)
Floyd: 27
Fluvanna: 145 (+3)
Franklin City: 87 (+4)
Franklin County: 117
Frederick: 582 (+7)
Fredericksburg: 294 (+4)

Galax: 299 (+3)
Giles: 18
Gloucester: 88 (+2)
Goochland: 138
Grayson: 100 (+1)
Greene: 92
Greensville: 387 (+1)

Halifax: 98 (+1)
Hanover: 511 (+3)
Hampton: 645 (+20)
Harrisonburg: 1,004 (+3)
Henrico: 3,005 (+18)
Henry: 393 (+2)
Highland: 3
Hopewell: 225 (+1)

Isle of Wight: 259 (+8)

James City: 402 (+6)

King George: 107
King and Queen: 32 (+1)
King William: 60

Lancaster: 23 (+1)
Lee: 32 (+5)
Lexington: 23
Louisa: 149 (+2)
Loudoun: 4,596 (+20)
Lunenburg: 42
Lynchburg: 226 (+5)

Madison: 52 (+1)
Manassas City: 1,521 (+10)
Manassas Park: 470 (+2)
Martinsville: 132 (+3)
Mathews: 7
Mecklenburg: 273 (+2)
Middlesex: 18
Montgomery: 211 (+4)

Nelson: 28
New Kent: 84
Newport News: 1,029 (+45)
Norfolk: 2,134 (+114)
Northampton: 278 (+1)
Northumberland: 50 (+1)
Norton: 4
Nottoway: 143 (+1)

Orange: 174 (+3)

Page: 314 (+2)
Patrick: 57 (+3)
Petersburg: 359 (+6)
Pittsylvania: 204 (+7)
Poquoson: 25 (+1)
Portsmouth: 925 (+53)
Powhatan: 102
Prince Edward: 239
Prince George: 283 (+3)
Prince William: 8,104 (+70)
Pulaski: 59 (+2)

Radford: 20
Rappahannock: 35
Richmond City: 2,541 (+20)
Richmond County: 311
Roanoke City: 621 (-1)
Roanoke County: 350
Rockbridge: 46 (+4)
Rockingham: 818 (+4)
Russell: 28

Salem: 108 (-1)
Scott: 25 (+5)
Shenandoah: 644 (+7)
Smyth: 69 (+6)
Spotsylvania: 1,136 (+12)
Southampton: 200 (+5)
Stafford: 1,112 (+11)
Staunton: 116 (+4)
Suffolk: 701 (+25)
Surry: 22 (+1)
Sussex: 233 (+4)

Tazewell: 39 (+3)

Virginia Beach: 2,464 (+68)

Warren: 326 (+4)
Washington: 104 (+4)
Waynesboro: 142 (+5)
Westmoreland: 185 (+1)
Winchester: 371 (+5)
Williamsburg: 91
Wise: 52 (+1)
Wythe: 65 (+1)

York: 200 (+9)

*NOTE: This data is provided from the Virginia Department of Healthdaily at 9 a.m. Officials said their cutoff for data is 5 p.m. the previous day. So your local health department may have issued an alert about a case before it is added to the statewide tally released the following day. Get the latest charts and updated numbers from VDH here.

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