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Posted By Jim Nintzel on Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 8:46 AM With 445 new cases reported today, the total number of Arizona’s confirmed novel coronavirus cases topped 834,000 as of Wednesday, March 17, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services. Pima County, which reported 56 new cases today, has seen 111,427 of the state’s 834,323 confirmed cases. With 12 new deaths reported this morning, a total of 16,586 Arizonans have died after contracting COVID-19, including 2,308 deaths in Pima County, according to the March 17 report. A total of 773 coronavirus patients were in the hospital as of March 16. That’s roughly 15% of the number hospitalized at the peak of the winter surge, which reached 5,082 on Jan. 11. The summer peak was 3,517, which was set on July 13, 2020. The subsequent lowest number of hospitalized COVID patients was 468, set on Sept. 27, 2020.
Advertisement: On campus, the rate of positivity remains low, with fewer than .2 percent of the more than 13,000 tests in the past 10 days. In Pima County on the week of Feb. 21, the rate of positivity dropped to 5.3%, nearing the goal of 5% for classification of minimal transmission. For the same week, the county had 78 cases of COVID per 100,000 residents, while 3% of reported hospital visits were for COVID-like illnesses. While these metrics continue to decline, a total of 39 cases of the UK variant had appeared in Arizona as of yesterday. On March 12, the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS), the Yuma County Public Health Services District and Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) reported three cases of the Brazilian variant (P.1.).
With 1,835 new cases reported today, the total number of Arizona’s confirmed novel coronavirus cases topped 830,000 as of Thursday, March 11, according to the.
With 1,154 new cases reported today, the total number of Arizona’s confirmed novel coronavirus cases topped 821,000 as of Thursday, March 4, according to the.