Vermont reported 141 new Covid-19 cases, 17 hospitalizations and no additional deaths Friday.
The state’s seven-day average for new infections is 131, down from 136 on Thursday, according to the Vermont Department of Health dashboard. The department retroactively added about 20 cases to previous days’ data, raising Thursday’s average.
Vermont’s seven-day average test positivity rate was 4.4% on Friday, up from 4.2% on Thursday. (The test positivity rate includes only PCR tests, not at-home antigen tests.)
The health department reported that 17 people were hospitalized with Covid as of Friday, the same as Thursday. That includes six people in intensive care, up from five on Thursday.
The state reported no additional Covid deaths on Friday. Seven people have died from Covid in Vermont so far in March, and 611 people have died in total since the beginning of the pandemic.
— Erin Petenko
