MIAMI VALLEY — A record-breaking 6,508 new coronavirus cases were reported in Ohio Tuesday and hospitalizations also set a new record with 386 reported.
Intensive Care Unit admissions also were above the 21-day average with 39 admissions. The 21-day average has been 23.
The state’s testing positivity rate rose again to 9.6%, which is the highest its been since the state announced an expansion of testing in May.
As of Tuesday afternoon, there have been at least 261,482 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 5,547 deaths, and 21,037 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health. 189,079 people are presumed to have recovered from the virus in the state.
Ohio has an estimated population of approximately 11.7 million, census records show.
There have been 4,950,007 people tested for the coronavirus in Ohio, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
A total of 23,654 health care workers have tested positive, which is about 9 percent of the cases.
LOCAL DEATHS:
· Darke - 54
· Clark - 58
· Greene - 51
· Miami - 62
· Mercer - 35
· Montgomery - 195
· Preble - 20
· Champaign - 4
· Butler - 135
· Auglaize - 19
· Warren - 70
· Shelby - 14
· Clinton - 14
· Logan - 6
LOCAL CASES REPORTED BY OHIO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (Some health departments will report its own numbers prior to the numbers reaching the state):
· Darke - 1,522 cases, 1,109 presumed recovered (Total Population: 51,323)
· Clark - 3,580 cases, 2,511 presumed recovered (Total Population: 134,585)
· Greene - 3,566 cases, 2,292 presumed recovered (Total Population: 167,995)
· Miami - 2,908 cases, 1,987 presumed recovered (Total Population: 106,222)
· Mercer - 2,131 cases, 1,532 presumed recovered (Total Population: 40,959)
· Montgomery – 14,491 cases, 10,476 presumed recovered (Total Population: 532,331)
· Preble - 995 cases, 627 presumed recovered (Total Population: 40,997)
· Champaign - 597 cases, 411 presumed recovered (Total Population: 38,754)
· Butler - 11,122 cases, 8,308 presumed recovered (Total Population: 383,134)
· Auglaize - 1,591 cases, 1,032 presumed recovered (Total Population: 45,804)
· Warren - 5,810 cases, 4,225 presumed recovered (Total Population: 234,602)
· Shelby - 1,293 cases, 920 presumed recovered (Total Population: 48,627)
· Clinton - 742 cases, 470 presumed recovered (Total Population: 41,968)
· Logan - 760 cases, 455 presumed recovered (Total Population: 45,358)
Presumed recovered is defined as cases with a symptom onset date > 21 days prior who are not deceased.
