People attend a Covid-19 pop-up vaccination center at the East London Mosque in Whitechapel, London, Saturday, February 6, 2021. (Dominic Lipinski / PA via AP)
This is a regularly updated story with the latest information on the coronavirus and its impact in Arizona and beyond on February 9, 2021.
PHOENIX – Arizona health officials on Tuesday reported 4,381 new cases of coronavirus and 231 additional deaths from COVID-19.
The state’s documented total rose to 787,268 infections and 14,286 deaths, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 panel.
The virus remains widespread throughout the state, although the increase that made Arizona the country’s hot spot last month is decreasing, reflecting a trend seen across the country.
COVID-19 hospitalizations and daily case averages are now lower than at the July peak of the state’s first wave, but the rate of mortality remains higher.
The number of confirmed or suspected COVID-19 inpatients in Arizona dropped to 2,744 on Monday, the lowest since December 2. The number of ICU beds used by patients with COVID-19 has dropped to 797, the lowest since December 8.
Across the state, patients with COVID-19 occupied 32% of all hospital beds and 45% of all ICU beds on Monday. Overall, hospital beds were at 88% of capacity and ICU beds at 87%.
Arizona’s weekly positivity percentage for the COVID-19 diagnostic test, an indicator of how much the virus is spreading in the community, was halved last month.
Of the 103,528 people tested last week, 12% received a positive result. The rate of positivity has been decreasing every week since it peaked at 24% for the week starting December 27.
The positive rate was 11% through 3,026 people tested this week.
Official positivity rates are based on when samples are collected, not when they are reported, so the percentage over the past few weeks may fluctuate as laboratories update tests and results are documented by the state.
The seven-day average for new coronavirus cases reported by the state health department was 2,963.14 on Monday, according to the Associated Press tracking, the lowest since November 19.
The seven-day average of recent deaths has not changed much since the beginning of February and was 133 on Monday.
In Monday’s update of the US Centers for Disease Control, Arizona ranked third in the country in deaths from COVID-19 per capita in the past seven days and eighth in cases.
Daily updates from the Arizona Department of Health present data on cases, deaths and tests after the state receives the statistics and confirms them, which can take several days or more. They do not represent actual activity in the past 24 hours.
Hospitalization data published every morning is reported electronically the night before 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 people and is severely debilitating or fatal for others. Infected people without symptoms – which include, but are not limited to, cough, fever and difficulty breathing – are able to spread the virus.
The diagnostic test is available at hundreds of locations across Arizona and should be sought out by anyone with symptoms or who may have been exposed to an infected person. Information on locations, times and registration can be found on the Department of Health Services website.
The department also has a vaccine location page with a location map and registration information.
Below are the latest developments on Tuesday about the coronavirus pandemic across the state, country and world:
- The Arizona Department of Health Services added a vaccine section to its online COVID-19 panel, with provisional data on doses administered, demographic analysis and more.
- The state of Arizona will distribute $ 289 million in federal aid to help people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic to pay rent and utilities in 12 rural Arizona counties.
- Pima County health officials were taken aback when Arizona health director Dr. Cara Christ told President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris that a state-owned COVID-19 vaccination site was planned for the area. from Tucson.
- President Joe Biden thanked Arizona Governor Doug Ducey for his cooperation in distributing COVID-19 vaccines in the state.
- Globally, there were about 106.58 million cases of COVID-19 and 2.33 million deaths on Tuesday morning, according to research by Johns Hopkins University. The figures for the US are around 27.1 million cases and 465,000 deaths.