COLUMBUS, Ohio – Recently confirmed and confirmed coronavirus cases increased 1,396 on Wednesday and a total of 87,893 people have had the infection, reports the Ohio Department of Health.
Forty more people have been reported dead with COVID-19 since Tuesday, which is nearly double the 21-day moving average of 21 recently reported deaths.
A total of 3,422 Ohioans had died with a confirmed or probable coronavirus on Wednesday.
The confirmed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention define confirmed cases as people who tested positive. Probable cases are diagnosed by a doctor when someone has been in close contact with an infected person, among other criteria.
The increase in the number of cases on Wednesday does not necessarily mean that all occurred in the last 24 hours. There is a delay between when they occur and when local entities send the information to the state.
The health department says 62,965 people are presumed to have recovered from COVID-19, which it defines as patients who have not died and who had started symptoms at least 21 days ago.
Comparison of recently reported cases
The Ohio record for cases reported daily is July 17, when there were 1,679, followed by last Friday, when there were 1,560 recently reported cases.
Wednesday’s gain is above the 21-day moving average of 1,320 cases per day. It is below the new cases of a week ago, when there were 1,527.
Hospitalizations
The Ohio Hospital Association reports that 1,100 people with coronavirus are found in hospitals across Ohio. This is below 1,144 on Tuesday and slightly above 1,097 a week ago.
There are 348 people in intensive care units across the state on Wednesday, which the state now says was the same number on Tuesday. It is slightly above 345 a week ago.
There were 179 people on fans on Wednesday, five more than 174 on Tuesday and 170 more than a week ago.
Tests
More than 1.4 million tests had been conducted Wednesday in Ohio, an increase of 22,025 tests.
When the state publishes the test figure, all tests are performed. People can have multiple tests, and some of those multiple tests are reflected in the total number of tests performed.
However, if any of those tests are positive, it will only count as one case.
The percentage of tests that tested positive was 5.7% on Monday, the date for which the state has the most recent data. The seven-day moving average for positive tests is 6.1%.
Outside of Ohio
Worldwide, 16.8 million cases and approximately 662,000 deaths have been estimated, according to the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
In the United States, there have been 4.3 million cases and almost 150,000 deaths of people with COVID-19.
The top counties in the US by number of cases are: Los Angeles with 179,000, Maricopa (Phoenix) with 111,000, and Miami-Dade with 110,000.
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