Arizona again reported a relative low of 1,861 new COVID-19 cases and a high 200 new known deaths on Thursday, as hospitalizations for the disease continued to decline.
Arizona's seven-day, new-case average ranked ninth on Wednesday among all states, after ranking first and second for much of January, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's COVID Data Tracker.
The state's rate of new positive cases over the last seven days was 43.5 cases per 100,000 people, per the CDC. South Carolina was first with 62.2 cases per 100,000. The U.S. average for new cases was 32.4 cases per 100,000 people.
The state's average daily COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 people over the past seven days ranked fourth in the nation as of Wednesday, per the CDC. Arizona's newly reported 200 deaths brought the known COVID-19 death count to 14,662.