RICHMOND, Va. (WFXR) — On Monday morning, the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) reported a total of 697,939 COVID-19 cases and 11,534 virus-related deaths, which includes 1,165 new confirmed and probable cases and one new confirmed or probable death from across the Commonwealth.
Virginia health officials confirmed 540,152 cases and 9,738 deaths are related to the virus as of Monday, Aug. 2. However, 157,787 cases and 1,796 deaths are still reported as “probable.”

According to VDH’s Monday count, more than 104,000 cases have been reported from the following localities in southwest and central Virginia:
- Alleghany County: 1,412 cases, 72 hospitalizations, and 50 deaths
- Amherst County: 3,077 cases, 133 hospitalizations, and 40 deaths
- Appomattox County: 1,659 cases, 73 hospitalizations, and 26 deaths
- Bath County: 278 cases, 11 hospitalizations, and 11 deaths
- Bedford County: 6,905 cases, 262 hospitalizations, and 110 deaths
- Bland County: 706 cases, 30 hospitalizations, and 10 deaths
- Botetourt County: 2,743 cases, 70 hospitalizations, and 38 deaths
- Buena Vista: 938 cases, 27 hospitalizations, and 22 deaths
- Campbell County: 5,132 cases, 219 hospitalizations, and 103 deaths
- Carroll County: 2,776 cases, 231 hospitalizations, and 79 deaths
- Charlotte County: 898 cases, 57 hospitalizations, and 21 deaths
- Covington: 625 cases, 33 hospitalizations, and 14 deaths
- Craig County: 339 cases, 18 hospitalizations, and 6 deaths
- Danville: 4,556 cases, 322 hospitalizations, and 144 deaths
- Floyd County: 906 cases, 31 hospitalizations, and 22 deaths
- Franklin County: 4,214 cases, 204 hospitalizations, and 83 deaths
- Galax: 1,180 cases, 97 hospitalizations, and 53 deaths
- Giles County: 1,369 cases, 55 hospitalizations, and 24 deaths
- Grayson County: 1,542 cases, 106 hospitalizations, and 39 deaths
- Halifax County: 2,886 cases, 84 hospitalizations, and 78 deaths
- Henry County: 4,745 cases, 381 hospitalizations, and 124 deaths
- Highland County: 115 cases, 1 hospitalization, and 1 death
- Lexington: 1,207 cases, 29 hospitalizations, and 33 deaths
- Lynchburg: 7,679 cases, 332 hospitalizations, and 149 deaths
- Martinsville: 1,643 cases, 171 hospitalizations, and 79 deaths
- Montgomery County: 9,443 cases, 191 hospitalizations, and 81 deaths
- Nelson County: 893 cases, 41 hospitalizations, and 13 deaths
- Patrick County: 1,437 cases, 121 hospitalizations, and 46 deaths
- Pittsylvania County: 5,763 cases, 280 hospitalizations, and 85 deaths
- Pulaski County: 2,821 cases, 139 hospitalizations, and 69 deaths
- Radford: 2,288 cases, 40 hospitalizations, and 28 deaths
- Roanoke City: 8,935 cases, 275 hospitalizations, and 200 deaths
- Roanoke County: 8,765 cases, 202 hospitalizations, and 148 deaths
- Rockbridge County: 1,594 cases, 60 hospitalizations, and 48 deaths
- Salem: 2,302 cases, 78 hospitalizations, and 50 deaths
- Wythe County: 2,825 cases, 177 hospitalizations, and 81 deaths
**items in bold indicate new cases, hospitalizations, and/or deaths from previous day’s totals**
Since Sunday, Aug. 1, the VDH reported 25 new COVID-19 cases in Lynchburg, 19 in Bedford County, 19 in Roanoke County, 17 in Montgomery County, 16 in Roanoke City, 15 in Salem, 13 in Franklin County, 10 in Campbell County, nine in Botetourt County, seven in Pulaski County, seven in Radford, seven in Wythe County, six in Amherst County, six in Appomattox County, five in Halifax County, three in Carroll County, two in Alleghany County, two in Charlotte County, two in Floyd County, two in Giles County, two in Nelson County, one in Bland County, one in Buena Vista, one in Covington, one in Craig County, one in Henry County, and one in Patrick County.
In addition, the department says one new virus-related death from Monday is from Lynchburg.
Health officials say they have received 31,423 total records of confirmed and probable virus-related hospitalizations around Virginia as of Monday, which is 33 more hospitalizations than VDH reported on Sunday.
Of these newly-reported hospitalizations from Monday, one is from Floyd County, one is from Grayson County, and one is from Roanoke County.
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