Valley adds 179 deaths to total overnight, while Ohio adds 2,559 in COVID death total readjustment
The Ohio Department of Health is reporting 2,559 deaths in the state on Friday, Feb. 12. 179 of those deaths are from the Valley.
However, that number is not the actual number of people who died overnight from the virus in the state, but what the state is calling a 'reconciling" of the deaths from November and December 2020 that were not added into the daily death total at that time. It was first reported on Thursday that nearly 4,000 COVID-19 deaths in Ohio went unreported - primarily in November and December in the state - which was discovered as the state Health Department when reconciling an internal death certificate database with a federal database. Mahoning County number of deaths increased by 93 deaths with the adjusted numbers added in, while Trumbull County add 57 deaths to its totals and Columbiana County added 29 additional deaths.
The state is reporting 3,305 additional cases of COVID-19 in Ohio in the last 24 hours, with 934,742 cases reported since the beginning of the pandemic. The 21-day average for cases in Ohio is 3,846.
Ohio is reporting one case of the UK variant of the covid strain, with two additional variant strain of the disease are also being watched, one in Brazil and one in South Africa, with no reported cases in the US at this time.
142 people were hospitalized in Ohio from the virus in the last 24 hours, with the 21-day average number of hospitalizations at 185. Nine patients were admitted into the ICU in the last day, with a 21-day average of 21.
Mahoning County is reporting 61 additional cases of covid in the last day, with 18,774 cases reported since last March in the county. One person was admitted in the last day to the hospital for the virus in the county, with 896 hospitalizations total. There have been 472 deaths so far in the county from the virus.
Trumbull County added 59 additionaL covid-19 cases, with three people hospitalized for the virus in the last day, and a total of 984 so far. There have been 408 deaths in the county from the virus.
Columbiana County is reporting 31 additional cases, with 7,866 total. There was one new virus-related hospitalization in the county and 163 virus-related deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
