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Coronavirus reported case counts including daily testing results, hospital capacity data, death reports and reports of hospital diversion triggers have placed more southeast Ohio counties in the red for emergency advisory according to the Ohio Department of Health.
According to Thursday’s Ohio Disease Reporting System data, 41 Washington County residents who have been diagnosed with coronavirus have also died, though only 31 deaths are logged as due to the virus and two are logged as probably due to the virus on the county map dashboard produced by the Ohio Department of Health.
Washington County and Noble County were designated Level 3: Red, on the state public health advisory system, too, Thursday, for the first time since the onset of the pandemic.