People attend a Covid-19 pop-up vaccination center at the East London Mosque in Whitechapel, London, on Saturday, February 6, 2021. (Dominic Lipinski / PA via AP)
This is a regularly updated story with the latest information about coronavirus and its impact in Arizona and not just for February 9, 2021.
PHOENIX – Arizona health officials reported 4,381 new coronavirus cases and 231 additional deaths from COVID-19 on Tuesday.
The state’s documented totals have moved to 787,268 infections and 14,286 deaths, according to the Arizona Department of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard.
The virus remains widespread across the country, although the growth that made Arizona the nation’s hotspot last month is receding, reflecting a nationwide trend.
COVID-19 hospitalizations and daily case averages are now lower than at the peak of the state’s first wave in July, but the death rate remains higher.
The number of hospitalized patients confirmed or suspected by Arizona with COVID-19 decreased to 2,744 months, the lowest since December 2.
At the national level, patients with COVID-19 took over 32% of all beds for inpatients and 45% of all beds for intensive care on Monday. In general, hospital beds were at 88% capacity and ICU beds at 87%.
Arizona’s weekly positive test for COVID-19, an indicator of how widespread the virus is in the community, has been halved in the past month.
Of the 103,528 people tested last week, 12% received a positive result. The positivity rate has fallen every week since it peaked at 24% in the week beginning December 27.
The positive rate was 11% through 3,026 people tested this week.
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 coronavirus cases recently reported by the health department was Monday, at 2,963.14, according to a follow-up by The Associated Press, the lowest mark since November 19.
The seven-day average of recently reported deaths has not changed much since early February and was 133 months.
In Monday’s update from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Arizona ranked third in the country for COVID-19 deaths per capita in the past seven days and eighth in cases.
The Arizona Department of Health’s daily updates present case, death, and test data after the state receives and confirms statistics, which may 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 could 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.
The department also has a vaccine search page with a location map and registration information.
Below are the latest developments on Tuesday about the coronavirus pandemic across the country, country and world:
- The Arizona Department of Health has added a vaccine section to its online Dashboard COVID-19, with tentative dose data, a demographic breakdown, and more.
- The state of Arizona will distribute $ 289 million in federal aid to help people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic pay their rent and utilities in 12 Arizona counties.
- Pima County health officials were taken by surprise when Arizona Health Director Dr. Cara Christ told President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris that a state-run COVID-19 vaccination site was planned for Tucson area.
- President Joe Biden thanked Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey for his cooperation in distributing COVID-19 vaccines across the state.
- Globally, there have been approximately 106.58 million COVID-19 cases and 2.33 million deaths since Tuesday morning, according to research from Johns Hopkins University. The figures for the US were about 27.1 million cases and 465,000 deaths.