144 more Ohioans have died with coronavirus, cases up 2,742: Friday update – cleveland.com

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The federal government said 144 more Ohioans have died with the coronavirus, bringing the total to 18,526 on Friday.

Cases were up 2,742 since Thursday, to a total of 1,008,913. Fridays case count is much higher than the 21-day rolling average of 1,556 cases.

For cases, the state follows the federal Centers for Disease Control and Preventions definition, which includes those diagnosed through genetic PCR or antigen tests, or people diagnosed in a clinical setting -- experiencing symptoms who are linked to a confirmed COVID-19 case, among other criteria.

For deaths, the state quit calculating the figure and now relies on twice weekly reports from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The last report was on Tuesday, when there were 18,382 deaths of Ohio residents with COVID-19.

Another 52,119 received second doses of vaccine or the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine on Friday, bringing the total number of fully vaccinated Ohioans to just over 1.76 million people. This is 15.09% of the population.

Other figures from Fridays Ohio Department of Health report:

-2.9% of PCR and molecular coronavirus tests were positive on Wednesday, the most recent day with positivity. The seven-day rolling average positivity rate is 3%.

-944 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ohio facilities, six more people than on Thursday.

Outside Ohio:

Worldwide, over 125.6 million coronavirus cases have been tracked by Johns Hopkins University, including 2.7 million deaths.

In the U.S., there have been 30 million cases, and 547,000 deaths.

Following the U.S. in deaths is Brazil, with 303,000 and Mexico, with 200,000.

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