Arizona surpasses 11,000 confirmed coronavirus cases
May 10, 2020, 9:06 AM | Updated: 5:00 pm
RYBNIK, POLAND - MAY 08: A health worker wears a protective suit, gloves, mask and a face shield as she carries saliva samples from miners to test for COVID-19 at Rybnik Regional Hospital 3 on May 8, 2020 in Rybnik, Poland. Polish state-owned coal group PGG is to test 4,000 workers for coronavirus after hundreds of its miners were infected and 1,500 are already in quarantine, forcing three mines to close. Poland has reported over 15,000 COVID-19 cases and over seven hundred deaths. (Photo by Omar Marques/Getty Images)
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PHOENIX — The Arizona health department reported 159 new coronavirus cases on Sunday morning, surpassing the 11,000-mark of total cases in the state.
Arizona now has 11,119 cases of COVID-19. With four additional positive deaths, the death toll increased to 536.
There have been 137,739 tests given in Arizona, according to the report, an increase of 8,799 from the previous day. The positive rate fell from 8% to 7.9%.
The health department has been providing case and testing updates on its website each morning. The daily report includes, among other information, details about deaths from COVID-19 and hospital capacity plus a ZIP code map of cases.
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The daily reports present data after the state receives statistics and compiles them, which can lag by several days. They don’t necessarily represent the actual activity over the past 24 hours.
The state is pushing to increase its diagnostic testing, in part, through the Arizona Testing Blitz. Saturday was the second of three weekend installments of the plan.
The program allows anybody with symptoms or who thinks they may have been exposed to COVID-19 to get tested for the virus. Most of the 40 participating testing sites require preregistration.
Gov. Doug Ducey recently announced that the state’s stay-at-home executive order, which has been in effect since March 31, was being extended through May 15 with modifications.
As a result, retail stores, barbershops and hair salons were among the businesses permitted to reopen as soon as Friday if they follow guidelines designed to curb the spread of coronavirus.
Restaurants, which have been limited to takeout and delivery under Ducey’s order, can resume dine-in service on a limited basis Monday.
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Coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia and death.
In most cases, a positive test won’t change a patient’s treatment plan.
Nationally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 77,034 deaths from more than 1.2 million COVID-19 cases as of Saturday’s daily U.S. update.
According to data compiled and regularly updated by Johns Hopkins University, there were nearly four million cases and nearly 280,000 deaths globally as of Sunday morning.
