Map shows COVID-19 cases and case rates over the week preceding the last update.
Credit: Nick O Gara/AZPM. Sources: The New York Times, based on reports from state and local health agencies, Census Bureau. Case reports do not correspond to day of test.
Cases 435,036 | Deaths 7,677
On Thursday, Dec. 17, Arizona reported 5,817 new cases of COVID-19 and 147 additional deaths. Only 8% of intensive care unit beds remain unoccupied, as of Dec. 16, state health department data shows.
Pharmacies will help vaccinate long-term care residents
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Major pharmacy chains will work with the state and federal government to ensure residents of long-term care facilities quickly receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to implement a mandatory curfew for residents earlier this week after COVID-19 infections in the county spiked past 1,300 cases per 100,000 residents. The threshold for rolling back the curfew is 100 cases per 100,000 people.
The county has had a voluntary curfew in place since late November, but Pima County officials investigated around 400 area businesses and found about 60 of those to be “seriously noncompliant.”
The vote was contentious.
One county supervisor compared the curfew to “gestapo tactics” and voted against it. Another said not adopting the curfew would represent a “dereliction of duty.”
District 5 Supervisor Betty Villegas voted for the curfew, and The Show spoke with her for more about why.
Pima County imposes mandatory curfew
Will stay in effect until new case numbers drop significantly Tucson skyline (Source: KOLD) By Bud Foster | December 15, 2020 at 6:09 PM MST - Updated December 15 at 8:53 PM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Citing an escalation in coronavirus cases, Pima County has passed a resolution calling for a mandatory county wide curfew, including all incorporated communities.
The curfew begins on Dec. 15, 2020 at 10 p.m. and ends at 5 a.m. daily.
The county imposed a voluntary curfew on December 4, 2020 and in an effort to check on compliance, sent itâs inspectors to observe 400 businesses on Friday and Saturday nights. It discovered 15% of those businesses were not in compliance.