The state health department has confirmed two more deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the statewide death toll to 1,553.
Deaths are reported to the state health department by facilities or by official death record, and can take up to ten days to be confirmed.
According to the state health department’s coronavirus dashboard, 401 new individuals from 36 counties have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the new statewide positive total to 115,312.
These results were from a pool of 5,386 tests for a daily positive rate of 8.03 percent.
241 of those positives were PCR tests, and 160 were antigen tests.
The cases broken down by county are:
2,181,318 total tests have been administered for the novel coronavirus. 464,191 unique individuals have been tested.
58 people are currently hospitalized due to COVID-19.
Since yesterday 176 individuals have been confirmed as recovered, bringing the recovered total to 112,071. This leaves 1,688 active confirmed cases.
