HENDERSON â COVID-19 case rates in the Tri-County are once again on the rise, the Granville-Vance Health Department officials said this week in their latest bulletin about the virusâ effects on the area.
As of July 28, there had been 102 new cases in Granville County and 52 in Vance County, with 41 and 21 of those, respectively, emerging in the past week, Granville-Vance Health Director Lisa Harrison said in the report.
Harrison called that a âconcerning resurgenceâ of infections, one that shows people should not âunderestimate COVID-19 and its ability to remain a threat to health and life.â
But there have been no additional deaths in the two counties in the past month, and vaccination rates are improving, she said.
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Vance County Schoolsâ four high schools celebrated graduation
for the Class of 2021 on Monday, with 175 seniors from Vance County
High School taking their turn on the schoolâs football field in the
early afternoon. The commencement exercise still included COVID-19
precautions, but was a more normal affair compared to last yearâs
drive-thru recognition.
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Seniors from Vance Early College High School got to receive
their diplomas from Superintendent Tony Jackson and principal
Travis Taylor in the gymnasium of Vance County High School on
Monday afternoon, concluding a long day of ceremonies for students
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HENDERSON â Like their counterparts in much of the country, rural counties in North Carolina were slower than urban ones in the winter and spring to get COVID-19 vaccinations into the arms of their residents, a new report published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control says.
That trend was and remains evident in the Tri-County, where 39.0% of residents in Vance County, 40.8% in Granville County and 41.8% in Warren County had received first-dose vaccinations as of Tuesday.
In the urban communities just to the regionâs south, first-dose shots have reached 53.1% of residents in Wake County, 52.1% in Durham County and a state-leading 60.7% of residents in Orange County.