Editor s Note
Disclaimer: These numbers are based on data shared by the Vermont Department of Health. Sometimes, the DOH will update previous days data based on newly-received information in later days.
New cases of COVID-19 in the Town of Essex were relatively lower for a second-straight week with only 15 being reported for the period of Feb. 4-10.
Of the 152 new cases in Chittenden County for that stretch, Essex accounted for 9.9% of them that being lower than the 11.7% of total cases in the county the town has accounted for since the pandemic began.
Only seven deaths from COVID-19 were recorded in Vermont between Feb. 4-10 with just two being reported for Chittenden County between Jan. 29 Feb. 11.
After seeing new case numbers of COVID-19 rising quickly over the past few weeks, Essex registered just seven new cases during the week of Jan. 28 Feb. 3.
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A member of the UAE royal family has called on the world to work as one to eradicate religious extremism, saying we ought to “vie with one another in virtue”.
Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak, Minister of Tolerance and Co-existence, made the plea when opening a five-day forum that began on the world’s first International Day for Human Fraternity.
Together, we will take up the banner of peace and preservation of human progress in our local and global communities
Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak
”I call on all of you today to work together to promote the inclusion of all regions of the world in the progress of humanity,” he said to an audience of almost 2,000 international officials, experts and academics, who attended the forum virtually.
Essex continues to experience hikes in newly-discovered cases of COVID-19, that trend now carrying through the last three weeks of the Vermont Department of Health’s town-by-town report compared to the
Essex saw its biggest hike in new COVID-19 cases in a week’s period since mid-November recently as there were 47 reported to the Vermont Department of Health for the week