The Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) provided its weekly update one day early due to the Christmas holiday, regarding the most recent statistics on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Delaware, as of 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 23.
In all, 3,906 new cases were announced this week for a total of 53,015 positive cases of COVID-19 among Delaware residents, reported to DPH since March 11. That s an average of 651 new cases daily.
In addition, 426 individuals are currently hospitalized (a net increase of 19 from last week, although the total rose to 454 earlier this week), of whom, 60 are critically ill (a decrease of 8).
A total of 888 Delawareans have passed away due to complications from COVID-19, with 30 additional deaths since last week s update, plus 4 added as a result of a Vital Statistics review. Total ages range in age from 21 to 104 years old. Of those who have died, 453 were female and 435 were male. A total of 441 individuals were from New Castle County, 158 were fro
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The Delaware Division of Public Health provided an update on the most recent statistics related to COVID-19 in Delaware as of 6 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 10.
A total of 43,818 positive cases of COVID-19 among Delaware residents have been reported to DPH since March 11, 2020. The number of new daily cases each day this week remained elevated, with the seven-day average increasing to 768.9 as of Dec. 10.
The seven-day average for the percentage of persons who tested positive for COVID-19 increased from 21 percent as of Dec. 3 to 22.8 percent as of Dec. 10. DPH publishes both positivity rates – persons tested and total tests conducted – on its COVID-19 data portal. As of Tuesday, Dec. 8, the seven-day average for the percentage of total tests that were positive was 9.5 percent, up from 8.4 percent on Dec. 1. There is a two-day lag for presenting data related to percent of tests that are positive to account for the time delay between the date of the test and the date that DPH receives t