Ariz. reports 5,400 new COVID-19 cases, no additional deaths
Arizona reported 5,400 new COVID-19 cases and no new deaths on Monday as hospitalization numbers stayed below previous records reached last week.
The state also reported one less death on Monday, bringing its overall COVID-19 death toll down from 11,266 to 11,265 known deaths since the pandemic began. The Arizona Department of Health Services in a tweet said the decrease resulted “from de-duplication of data.”
A spokesperson for the department told The Arizona Republic that while he could not confirm on Monday how many deaths had been “de-duplicated,” the number of deaths reported each day tends to be lower at the end of weekends.
The state’s seven-day new-case average again ranked first among all states Sunday after ranking first and second the past two weeks, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID Data Tracker.
Arizona’s rate of new positive cases over the last seven days was 116.9 cases per 100,000 people, per the CDC. The U.S. average for new cases is 66.8 cases per 100,000 people.
Arizona’s average daily COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 people over the past seven days ranked second in the nation as of Sunday, CDC data show.
The state surpassed 11,000 known deaths from COVID-19 Friday after passing 10,000 deaths just six days earlier. Many of the deaths occurred days or weeks prior, due to reporting delays and death certificate matching.
The Arizona data dashboard shows 93% of all ICU beds and 92% of all inpatient beds in the state were in use Sunday, with 61% of ICU beds and 55% of non-ICU beds occupied by COVID-19 patients. Statewide, 130 ICU beds and 714 non-ICU beds were available.
The number of patients hospitalized in Arizona for known or suspected COVID-19 cases was at 4,752 on Sunday, below last Monday’s record 5,082 inpatients. The number of patients with suspected or known COVID-19 in ICUs across Arizona was at 1,097 on Sunday, below the record high of 1,183 last Monday.
Arizonans with confirmed and suspected COVID-19 on ventilators tallied 797 on Sunday, slightly below the record high 821 reached on Jan. 13.
Sunday saw 1,844 patients in the emergency room for COVID-19, below the Dec. 29 single-day record of 2,341 positive or suspected COVID-19 patients seen in emergency departments across the state.
Monday’s 5,400 new cases brought the total number of identified COVID-19 cases in the state to 679,282. As of Monday, 11,265 Arizonans are known to have died from the disease, according to the data dashboard from ADHS.
Monday’s numbers
Reported cases in Arizona: 679,282. Cases since the outbreak began increased by 5,400, or 0.80%, from Sunday’s 673,882 identified cases. These daily cases are grouped by the date they are reported to the Arizona Department of Health Services, not by the date the tests were administered.
Cases by county: 421,551 in Maricopa, 90,765 in Pima, 36,888 in Pinal, 33,163 in Yuma, 16,816 in Mohave, 14,839 in Yavapai, 14,066 in Coconino, 13,494 in Navajo, 9,643 in Cochise, 8,674 in Apache, 7,066 in Santa Cruz, 5,410 in Gila, 4,382 in Graham, 2,042 in La Paz and 483 in Greenlee, according to state numbers.
The Navajo Nation reported 26,383 cases and 919 confirmed deaths in total as of Sunday. The Navajo Nation includes parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.
The Arizona Department of Corrections reported 8,463 inmates had tested positive for COVID-19 as of Thursday, including 1,661 in Yuma, 1,612 in Tucson, 1,279 in Eyman and 1,118 in Douglas; 43,219 inmates statewide have been tested. A total of 2,206 prison staff members have self-reported testing positive, the department said. Twentyeight incarcerated people in Arizona have been confirmed to have died of COVID-19, with 17 additional deaths under investigation.
Deaths by county: 6,443 in Maricopa, 1,422 in Pima, 633 in Yuma, 490 in Pinal, 439 in Mohave, 392 in Navajo, 325 in Yavapai, 278 in Apache, 245 in Coconino, 191 in Cochise, 167 in Gila, 132 in Santa Cruz, 58 in Graham, 46 in La Paz and four in Greenlee.