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Alexandria sees dip in Covid numbers despite reporting ‘inaccuracy’ by Virginia Department of Health

Published February 14, 2022 at 1:00PM

Regardless of a reporting inaccuracy by the Virginia Department of Health, Alexandria’s Covid numbers are still going down.

VDH identified 220 cases that were “inaccurately auto-generated duplicated in the case reporting system,” which is why there were 19 cases reported on Feb. 6, 20 cases on Feb. 7 and 43 cases on Feb. 8 — all sharp contrasts to the hundreds of daily cases being reported the previous week. Additionally, three deaths from January were also added to the city’s death toll, which now stands at 176.

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Alexandria’s Pat Malone to stand up to cancer for 24 hours straight

By James Cullum

Published February 8, 2022 at 1:00PM | Updated February 8, 2022 at 1:41PM

Alexandria's Pat Malone will stand up for 24 hours straight on Feb. 10 -11 for his 11th annual Stand Up To Cancer fundraising event (via Elza Daniel/Facebook)

Alexandria’s Pat Malone will stand up to cancer for 24 hours straight starting this Thursday (Feb. 10) at Fire Works Pizza in Arlington.

The event starts at 4:26 p.m. Thursday and ends at the same time on Friday.

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Omicron surge receding for third straight week in Alexandria, city advises mask vigilance

By James Cullum

Published January 31, 2022 at 11:00AM

The number of positive Covid cases continues to go down in Alexandria, as officials say that the latest wave of Omicron cases will recede within a month.

While cases have gone down for the third straight week, numbers are still historically high.

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George Washington University opens new medical practice in West End

By Vernon Miles

Published January 28, 2022 at 2:30PM

GW Primary Care facility in Alexandria, photo courtesy GW Medical Faculty Associates

George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates (GW MFA) has opened up a new primary care office at 1500 N. Beauregard Street, suite 100, near the Mark Center.

“GW Primary Care is excited to provide care to the entire Alexandria, Virginia community,” GW MFA said on its website. “From the Old Town Waterfront to Alexandria’s West End, we are committed to improving the lives of our patients through quality and equitable health care.”

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ACPS receives 88,000 KN95 masks after ignoring Governor Youngkin executive order

By James Cullum

Published January 21, 2022 at 9:30AM | Updated January 21, 2022 at 2:50PM

Alexandria City Public Schools received 88,000 KN95 face masks for all students and staff last week, not long after newly installed Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order removing face mask mandates in public schools.

Alexandria, along with Arlington and Fairfax County, defied that order and are still requiring students, staff and visitors wear masks indoors. The Alexandria City High School athletic department has also reinstituted mask wearing during practices and competition.

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Alexandria sees more than 7,000 new Covid cases in January

By James Cullum

Published January 18, 2022 at 11:00AM

Alexandria’s Covid numbers are going down, but the numbers of new reported cases continues to rise by the hundreds on a daily basis.

There have been 26,907 total cases reported by the Virginia Department of Health as of today (Monday, Jan. 18), and the number of deaths has climbed by two since last week to 163. Sunday, Jan. 17, saw the the fewest single day number of cases reported so far this year with 191 new cases.

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Alexandria City Council to likely make fifth extension of state of emergency

By James Cullum

Published January 11, 2022 at 10:45AM

The Alexandria City Council will likely extend the city’s state of emergency from the end of January to June 30, 2022. Tuesday night’s (Jan. 11) vote will be the fifth extension of the declaration since the pandemic began in March 2020.

The declaration, which was first approved by Council in March 2020, has been continually updated, and finds that “the emergency continues to exist and will exist into the future.”

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Alexandria Mayor asks city to ‘step up our masking game,’ but says mask mandate has to come from state

By Vernon Miles

Published January 10, 2022 at 2:30PM

Fresh from a bout with Covid that left Mayor Justin Wilson isolating in Spain, Wilson’s first virtual town hall of 2022 launched with a discussion of the current situation with COVID-19.

Alexandria has seen record-high levels of confirmed Covid cases thanks to the highly infections omicron variant. Wilson implored locals to swap out the simple cloth masks for more effective N95 or KN 95 masks.

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COVID-19 cases surge past 20,000 in Alexandria, record broken as more than 1,000 new cases reported in single day

By James Cullum

Published January 4, 2022 at 1:15PM | Updated January 4, 2022 at 2:43PM

Alexandria surged past 20,000 new cases of COVID-19 going into the New Year, and on Sunday (Jan. 2) set yet another single-day record for the most reported cases ever.

COVID-19 peaked in Alexandria on Sunday with 1,040 newly reported cases, according to the Virginia Department of Health. As of today (Tuesday, Jan. 4) there have been 20,875 reported cases, which is more than 3,000 within the last week.

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Alexandria hits record high for COVID testing

By Vernon Miles

Published December 21, 2021 at 10:50AM

COVID testing data, photo via Justin Wilson/Twitter

Alexandria is seeing an uptick in reported COVID cases in part due to the Omicron variant, but it could also have something to do with the record number of Alexandrians getting COVID tested before the holidays.

Mayor Justin Wilson said on Twitter that the city saw its single biggest day for COVID testing last Friday.

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Alexandria surges past 16,000 cases of COVID-19, with more than 800 new cases in a week

By James Cullum

Published December 20, 2021 at 1:00PM | Updated December 21, 2021 at 9:06PM

In the last two weeks, Alexandria went from just over 15,000 reported cases of COVID-19 to surpassing 16,000 cases.

As of today (Monday, Dec. 20) there have been 16,075 reported cases of the coronavirus in Alexandria, and more of 800 of new infections have listed since this time last week by the Virginia Department of Health. There have also been 156 deaths from the virus.