Covid-19 Positive Rate Drops During Past Seven Days At Ballad Hospitals

Ballad Health says the state is reporting its positive Covid-19 rate during the past seven days has dropped to six point eight percent. As of Monday, there were 76 Covid-19 patients in Ballad Hospitals. Nine patients are in the intensive care unit with seven patients on ventilators. There have been a total of 34 deaths reported in Ballad Hospitals since last Monday. Those figures are for the 21 county service area Ballad serves in the Tri Cities and Southwest Virginia.