(AP Photo / Dar Yasin)
This is a regularly updated story with the latest information about coronavirus and its effects in Arizona and beyond on Sunday, November 15th.
PHOENIX – Arizona health officials reported 2,383 new coronavirus cases on Sunday with two additional deaths.
A total of 275,436 COVID-19 infections and 6,302 deaths have been documented in this matrix, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services.
Sunday’s report marks the end of two days of more than 20,000,000 cases of coronavirus. Counting three times last week took that mark, the first time in a single day since July 31 that many cases have been reported.
Key epidemic metrics are increasing at an unseen rate since the first wave hit in June and July. Cases have been on the rise since the beginning of October, when deaths began on the same route almost three weeks later.
The number of patients at Arizona’s confirmed or suspected COVID-19 hospital on Saturday rose to 1,506 overnight from August. 10 is the highest. On October 1 it was 586.
The number of COVID-19 patients in the ICU bed on Saturday rose to 368, up from 125 ct. 125 is above the 1 mark and the highest since 19 August.
Outbreaks of hospital admissions iz, 5,177 inpatients and 70,070 ICU patients remain below the epidemic level, both reported on July 13.
Arizona’s weekly percentage positivity for the Covid-19 diagnostic test, an indicator of how much the virus has spread in the community, has reached a three-month high.
Last week, the weekly rate was recorded by 727,163 tests, which was 10%, the same mark in the week starting July 26.
The top rate was 20% at the end of June, up from 9% for the 113,232 tests reported earlier in the week.
Official positivity rates are based on when the samples are taken, not when they are reported, so percentages may fluctuate in recent weeks as labs are caught in the tests and the results are documented by the state.
The seven-day rolling average of newly registered cases from the state health department rose to 2,238.43 on Saturday, according to Associated Press tracking.
The seven-day average of newly recorded deaths on Saturday was 21.86, which is a small bump from Friday and the same as Thursday. The average month started at 15.21pm and reached 26.14 on November 8th.
The seven-day average remains well below the peaks of 3,844 cases on July 6 and 94 deaths on July 30.
Daily reports from the Arizona Department of Health state, after receiving statistics and confirming them, present case, death, and test data, which can be delayed for several days or more. They do not represent the actual activity of the last 24 hours.
Hospital hospitalization data posted every morning is reported by hospitals the previous evening.
Cases skyrocketed in June, with local governments in many parts of Arizona – including all of Maricopa County – enforcing face mask requirements, and Gov. Doug Ducey issuing statewide executive orders to close some businesses and ban restaurant business.
The spread of COVID-19 slowed down for several months after those measures were taken. All Arizona counties have since hit a benchmark set by the Department of Health that allows closed industries to reopen under capacity restrictions and other regulations.
Covid-19, a disease caused by the novel coronavirus, has no effect on some people and is severely debilitating or fatal to others. Infected people without symptoms – including but not limited to coughing, fever and shortness of breath – are capable of spreading the virus.
Following are the latest developments on Sunday about the coronavirus epidemic in the state, country and around the world:
- Globally, as of Sunday morning, more than 54.05 million Kovid-19 cases and 1.31 million people have died, according to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University. U.S. figures put the figure at about 10.91 million cases and 245,615 deaths.
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