HENDERSON — County property and sales tax revenues increased for the third consecutive year, as noted in the Fiscal Year 2023-24 Vance County Budget approved June 14 by the Board
HENDERSON â COVID-19 case rates in the Tri-County are once again on the rise, the Granville-Vance Health Department officials said this week in their latest bulletin about the virusâ effects on the area.
As of July 28, there had been 102 new cases in Granville County and 52 in Vance County, with 41 and 21 of those, respectively, emerging in the past week, Granville-Vance Health Director Lisa Harrison said in the report.
Harrison called that a âconcerning resurgenceâ of infections, one that shows people should not âunderestimate COVID-19 and its ability to remain a threat to health and life.â
But there have been no additional deaths in the two counties in the past month, and vaccination rates are improving, she said.
WFAE local and state officials are anticipating that increasing the numbers of vaccinated will be more difficult in the coming weeks.
In the 18 weeks since the first North Carolinian received a vaccination against the coronavirus that’s upended the world for the past year, the state has managed to put about 6.6 million doses of vaccine into the arms of more than 3.8 million people.
That mass vaccination effort led to 647,415 doses being administered in the week of April 5.
That week is likely to be a high-water mark though. In the week starting April 12, 519,373 total doses of vaccine were administered in the state, a lower number than the average for the six prior weeks. And with just under half the adult population in North Carolina having a vaccination now, local and state officials are anticipating that increasing the numbers of vaccinated will be more of a slog.