With 638 new cases reported today, the total number of Arizonaâs confirmed novel coronavirus cases topped 833,000 as of Monday, March 15, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services.
Pima County, which reported 137 new cases today, has seen 111,344 of the stateâs 833,381 confirmed cases.
With no new deaths reported this morning, a total of 16,553 Arizonans have died after contracting COVID-19, including 2,300 deaths in Pima County, according to the March 15 report.
A total of 716 coronavirus patients were in the hospital as of March 11 Thatâs roughly 14% of the number hospitalized at the peak of the winter surge, which reached 5,082 on Jan. 11. The summer peak was 3,517, which was set on July 13, 2020. The subsequent lowest number of hospitalized COVID patients was 468, set on Sept. 27, 2020.