Arizona health authorities reported 864 new coronavirus cases and six additional deaths on Tuesday morning.
That put the state’s documented totals at 221,934 COVID-19 infections and 5,713 fatalities, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services. It was the first daily case report over 800 since Sept. 18.
Multiple key metrics about the severity of Arizona’s pandemic are near the lowest they’ve been in months, but hospitalization numbers have been creeping upward.
The number of Arizona’s confirmed or suspected COVID-19 hospital inpatients was up to 665 on Monday, the most since Sept. 5
The number of COVID-19 patients in ICU beds has increased slightly for six consecutive days and was up to 138 on Monday. On Sept. 22, it was a pandemic-low 114.