SPOKANE, Washington. – The Spokane Regional Health District reported on Friday the highest total of 24-hour cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.
According to the SRHD, 134 people have been diagnosed with the virus and a 60-year-old person has died since Thursday. Twenty-eight people are currently hospitalized.
In the last week, nine percent of all cases have been confirmed as positive. The state is seeking to get that number closer to two percent.
The latest increase in cases and the total cases for the week can be connected to the weekend of July 4, considering that two weeks have passed since the holiday. There is a current delay in testing and results take 10 days to be returned.
Test data is increasing rapidly in the county with 38,000 tests completed to this point; six percent of those have been positive.
The hospitalization rate will be important to monitor in the coming days.
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