Editor's Note
Disclaimer: These numbers are based on data shared by the Vermont Department of Health. Sometimes, the DOH will update previous days' data based on newly-received information in later days.
New cases of COVID-19 in the Town of Essex were relatively lower for a second-straight week with only 15 being reported for the period of Feb. 4-10.
Of the 152 new cases in Chittenden County for that stretch, Essex accounted for 9.9% of them -- that being lower than the 11.7% of total cases in the county the town has accounted for since the pandemic began.
Only seven deaths from COVID-19 were recorded in Vermont between Feb. 4-10 with just two being reported for Chittenden County between Jan. 29 -- Feb. 11.