Ohio reports fewer than 1,500 daily COVID cases for 11th straight day

A man is silhouetted against the wall of a white tent as he gets a COVID-19 test at the Clark County Combined Health District's free COVID testing clinic at Hayward Middle School. BILL LACKEY/STAFF

Credit: Bill Lackey

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A man is silhouetted against the wall of a white tent as he gets a COVID-19 test at the Clark County Combined Health District's free COVID testing clinic at Hayward Middle School. BILL LACKEY/STAFF

Ohio has reported fewer than 1,500 new coronavirus cases for 11 straight days. In the past 24 hours, 1,449 new cases were reported, bringing the state to a total of 1,087,182 cases since the beginning of the pandemic.

The current 21-day case average is 1,371 cases per day, the Ohio Department of Health reported Wednesday.

The Ohio Hospital Association reported just under 1,000 current coronavirus hospitalizations, an 11% drop in patients in the past week. Currently, about one in 21 patients are COVID-19 positive. The ODH reported 173 hospitalizations and 14 intensive care unit admissions in the past 24 hours.

Tonight, Gov. Mike DeWine is scheduled to give a statewide address at 5:30 p.m. about Ohio’s progress in the battle against coronavirus.

He is expected to discuss where the state stands and what’s being done to reach the end of the pandemic.

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