Delaware saw daily cases of Covid-19 again rise above 300, according to a Thursday report from the Delaware Division of Public Health.
Cases had dipped below 300 around the Easter-Passover holidays.
Delaware and neighboring states have seen an uptick in daily cases, leading to concerns that a surge might occur despite vaccination progress. About one-third of Delaware’s population has received one or more doses of vaccine.
The other numbers
- One new death – an individual in their 70s from New Castle County. The death increased Delaware’s total number of COVID-related deaths to 1,568.
- 332 new positive cases, bringing the overall total to 97,374.
- 23.1 percent of people who tested positive in a weekly rolling average (up four-tenths of a percent from the previous day) and 5.4 percent of total tests were positive in a weekly rolling average (unchanged from the previous day).
- 145 current hospitalizations (no change from the previous day), including 17 individuals in critical condition.
- 24 new hospital admissions, down 8 from the previous day.
- 533,186 total vaccine doses were administered (up 12,844 from the previous day).
Below is an interactive map from Google and media partners that shows Delaware well above the national average in the number of new cases per 100,000 population.
New Castle County is now in the dark red zone of 500 or more cases per 100,000 population. Sussex County, which struggled with Covid-19 a year ago, now has about half the rate of cases as New Castle.
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