COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio Department of Health reported Saturday afternoon that the state has 14,293 new cases of coronavirus between New Year’s Day and Saturday.
This brings the total number of cases to 700,673, including confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases.
The state has exceeded 9,000 deaths in 9,017 to 55 since New Year’s Eve (Thursday).
ODH did not report the numbers on Friday in keeping with New Year’s Day, so the numbers on Saturday reflect the new cases for both the holiday and today.
The total number of cases exceeded 700,000 on New Year’s Eve, with 8,962 deaths in total.
Confirmed cases are defined by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as people with positive results. Probable cases are diagnosed by a doctor when someone is in close contact with an infected person, among other criteria.
More than 84 million people worldwide have or had coronavirus and more than 1.8 million people died of the virus.
More than 20 million people in the United States have or have had coronavirus and more than 348,000 people have died from the infection.
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