Mayor MaryJane Dolan will conduct a press conference in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 900 Church Street. The purpose of the press conference is to discuss the increase in COVID-19 cases in Lynchburg.
Lynchburg is seeing a rise in COVID-19 cases in the area, and it’s concerning the mayor and health officials.
In a press conference on Monday, doctors with the Virginia Department of Health and Centra Hosptial broke down the recent increases.
There are 36 patients in the hospital right now that’s the highest they’ve seen since March.
Doctors say they have 16 patients in ICU. Twelve are on a ventilator and one person died over the weekend.
“On Friday we actually began to move some patients towards Farmville that were COVID positive as we are seeing high numbers at Lynchburg General. And frankly, our numbers in our Farmville facility had dropped.”
Source: WSLS News 10
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