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For the first time in several weeks, the Roanoke area saw fewer than 300 new COVID-19 cases.
Dr. Cynthia Morrow, the director of the Roanoke City-Alleghany Health District, reported 286 new cases over the past week. That number stood at 345 for the previous week. We still have significant COVID-19 activity in our community. It is decreasing. That is encouraging, Morrow said during a weekly call with reporters Tuesday. But the best way for us to assure an ongoing downward is for us to continue to follow our community mitigation strategy. That means wearing masks, keeping distance and washing hands.
The number of district residents hospitalized for COVID-19 complications did tick up to 37 over the past week. Twelve additional deaths were recorded bringing the district s total to 452. The number of active outbreaks was steady at nine.
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Health Department officials say they’re making progress moving through people eligible to be vaccinated in Phase 1B. They’re asking people who have registered on the state portal to verify their information.
Dr. Cynthia Morrow with the Roanoke City-Alleghany Health District says if you choose to be contacted by phone then answer the call.
We have a lot of volunteers helping us reach out directly, making phone calls to get people into our vaccine clinics. But our no-answer rate is extraordinarily high. That rate was about 50% Monday, Morrow added.
Morrow says a mismatch on a data list at the state level allowed some ineligible people to be included in a Roanoke-area clinic designated for 1B individuals last weekend. That problem was identified too late to be corrected for last weekend s clinic, but it has been corrected for future vaccination events. Morrow defended the state s streamlined portal and database during a weekly call with reporters Tuesday. “It