The county Department of Public Health reported 21 deaths on Saturday and 20 each on Sunday and Monday. Health officials recently noted an uptick in virus-related death numbers, following a recent …
The new deaths gave the county an overall pandemic death toll of 34,471.
Updated numbers of COVID-positive patients in county hospitals were not immediately available. As of Saturday, state figures showed 1,229 such patients being treated in county hospitals, with 143 of them in intensive care. As of Monday, the seven-day average daily rate of people testing positive for the virus in the county was 10.1%, slightly below the rate from a week ago.
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