COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio Department of Health reported Saturday afternoon that the state has 1,558 new cases of coronavirus.
This brings the total number of cases to 988,298, which confirms and probably includes COVID-19 cases.
The state has not reported any new deaths in the past 24 hours, as the state recently announced that new deaths will no longer be available daily. The dashboard of the state will be updated twice a week.
The Ohio Department of Health is relying on the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to detect the deaths of Ohio residents, a change in the counting protocol announced Tuesday.
Between 6 a.m. Friday and 6 a.m. Saturday, 43,505 people completed their vaccination.
The total number of people who have completed their vaccination is now more than 1.3 million, representing 11.46 percent of Ohio’s population.
The state follows the definition of the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of a ‘case’, which includes those diagnosed by genetic PCR or antigen testing, or people diagnosed in a clinical setting – experiencing symptoms linked to a confirmed COVID-19 case. , among other criteria.
More than 119 million people worldwide have COVID-19 or had, and more than 2.6 million people have died from the deadly virus.
More than 29 million people in the United States have or have had COVID-19, and more than 533,000 people have died from it.
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