Apr. 24—ESSEX — The town of Essex and Manchester Essex Regional School District are working to give Essex Elementary School a complete eco-friendly heating system. Half of the new system is already in place in the east wing of the school and the gymnasium at 12 Story St. School officials have applied for a $132,000 grant from the state Green Communities department for additional green heating .
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.
For the fifth-straight week, Essex has registered more new cases of COVID-19 than the week before. For the period of March 4-10, the town is listed by the Vermont Department of Health as having 38 new cases documented that being the most since the week ending Jan. 20.
Essex has averaged 29 new cases per week since mid-November. In the latest town-by-town report, it had the second-most new cases in Chittenden County and accounted for 17.6% of the countyâs new cases in the week that being over the 11.9% Essex has accounted for in Chittenden Countyâs total since the state started recording data last March.
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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.
After seeing new case numbers of COVID-19 rising quickly over the past few weeks, Essex registered just seven new cases during the week of Jan. 28 Feb. 3.