Total positive cases of COVID-19 since March of last year are nearing the 6,000 mark as 98 new positives were reported today by the Halifax County Health Department.

There are now 5,990 total positives since last year. 

Of that 5,990 total, there have been 5,653 patients who have recovered. There are 205 active cases with at least 13 of those hospitalized, health department Director Bruce Robistow said.

There remains 116 deaths related to the virus in Halifax County.

Asked what has gone wrong as the number of positive cases increase after a sharp decline, Robistow said, “The best answer is not what we’re doing wrong, it's what we have done. We started out accepting the fact we were in a pandemic. We were eager for a vaccine and eager to get back to normal.”

When the vaccine became available “the demand and the lines to get vaccinated were extreme and then suddenly the demand all but diminished. This made it able to knock COVID-19 down but not out. It gave the virus the opportunity to mutate and come back even stronger.”

Moving forward, Robistow said, the county “needs to go to where we were when we were making progress, getting vaccinated and practicing the three Ws. Then what we need to do is follow it through, reaching herd immunity, and disallowing the virus to continue to mutate.”

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Total number of positives by ZIPcode beginning March 25, 2020 through today

Enfield (27823) – 832 cases

Halifax (27839) – 288 cases

Hobgood (27843) – 130 cases

Hollister (27844) – 291 cases

Littleton (27850) – 506 cases

Roanoke Rapids (27870) – 3,230 cases

Scotland Neck (27874) – 468 cases

Weldon (27890) – 254 cases

Cases by Date of Earliest Illness Identification and Race/Ethnicity

The numbers for the past week increased.

Percent Positive of COVID 19 Cases

The percent positives has increased over the past week with an average of 9.3 percent. 

Cases by Date of Earliest Illness Identification and Age  

Ages 25-49 represent the largest age groups who have tested positive this past week.

Cases by Date of Earliest Illness Identification and Congregate Living Setting Association

The numbers for the past week increased.

Halifax County Vaccination Status 

22,428 people at least partially vaccinated — 45 percent of the population, an indication of an increase in those getting their first vaccination.

20,172 people fully vaccinated — 40 percent of the population.

Northampton County 

The health department Tuesday reported there have been 1,985 total positive cases of which 1,889 have recovered. There have been 70 COVID-19 related deaths. There were 26 active cases.