People wearing face masks are waiting to receive a coronavirus vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccination center in Jerusalem on Monday, January 4, 2021. (Photo AP / Oded Balilty)
This is a regularly updated story with the latest information about coronavirus and its impact in Arizona and not just for January 5, 2021.
PHOENIX – Arizona health officials reported 253 new coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, a record number and 5,932 additional cases.
The Arizona Department of Health said 215 of the deaths were the result of the process of matching death certificates, but did not say how old they were. Only three deaths were reported on Sunday and Monday.
The previous maximum for one-day deaths was 172 on July 30.
The state’s documented totals moved to 567,474 COVID-19 infections and 9,317 deaths, according to the health department’s dashboard.
Since Monday, Arizona has had the highest per capita case rate in seven days and the seventh highest per capita death rate, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
Meanwhile, state hospitals continued to see a record number of confirmed or suspected COVID-19 patients.
The number of patients admitted to COVID-19 Hospital in Arizona rose to 4,789 on Monday, beating the previous day’s record by 142.
The number of patients with COVID-19 in ICU state beds rose to 1,096 on Monday, beating the previous day’s record by 14.
Nationally, patients suspected or confirmed of COVID-19 took over 56% of all inpatient beds and 62% of all intensive care beds, both records.
In general, hospital beds and intensive care beds were each 92% full.
Arizona’s weekly positivity test for the diagnosis of COVID-19, an indicator of how widespread the virus is in the community, is the highest so far. Of the 149,961 people tested last week, 25% tested positive. This is 4 percentage points above the previous record.
Official positivity rates are based on the time of sampling, not the time they are reported, so the percentage in recent weeks may fluctuate as laboratories are caught in testing and the results are documented by the state.
The seven-day average for new cases of coronavirus reported by the health department was 8,159.86 months, down from a record high the previous day, but still the second highest in history, according to a follow-up by The Associated Press.
The seven-day average of deaths recently reported with COVID-19 was 85 months, down from the previous day.
Daily state updates present case, death and test data after the state receives statistics and confirms them, which can remain for a few days or more. It is not the actual activity of the last 24 hours.
Hospitalization data posted each morning is reported electronically the previous evening by 100 hospitals across the state, as required by the executive order.
COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, has no impact on some and is severely debilitating or fatal to others. Asymptomatic infected people – which include, but are not limited to, cough, fever, and difficulty breathing – are able to spread the virus.
Diagnostic testing is available in hundreds of locations in Arizona and should be looked for by anyone with symptoms or who may have been exposed to an infected person. Information about locations, programs and registrations can be found on the website of the Department of Health Services.
Below are the latest developments on Tuesday about the coronavirus pandemic across the country, country and world:
- Arizona would not be the worst hot spot in COVID-19 today if state officials did a better job of enforcing mitigation rules, said Dr. Will Humble, a public health expert. KTAR News 92.3 FM’s The Mike Broomhead Show.
- The Arizona Department of Health has announced that 101,030 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the state, and a second county has moved to phase 1B distribution. Gila joined Pinal in the second phase, which includes education and childcare workers, protection occupations, adults aged 75 and over, essential services and critical workers in the industry and adults with disabilities. high risk in congregation conditions.
- Gov. Doug Ducey has announced additional $ 2 million in funding for Arizona restaurants to continue expanding the outdoor dining space amid the coronavirus pandemic.
- Globally, there have been approximately 85.84 million COVID-19 cases and 1.86 million deaths since Tuesday morning, according to research from Johns Hopkins University. The figures for the US were about 20.83 million cases and 353,000 deaths.