Gov. Ralph Northam

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Gov. Ralph Northam announced Wednesday the loosening of some public COVID-19 restrictions, including the lifting of a stay-at-home curfew and an expansion of alcohol sales.

Northam said COVID-19 trends in the state suggest the holiday-time surge has eased, and that faster vaccine delivery, combined with antibodies people who have been infected with COVID-19 developed, could result in about half of Virginians being immune to the virus by late spring.

Contributing to that are increases in vaccine supply coming from the federal government. Northam said the state hopes to receive about 50,000 additional vaccine doses per week once federal officials approve the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Shipments could arrive as early as next week.

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