The Ohio Department of Health said that manual reporting errors at two laboratories will cause 24-hour daily case counts of COVID-19 to be temporarily inflated on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

According to the state, 7,699 newly recorded positive COVID-19 tests were counted for one day, but the number actually included both new cases and updated information on previously recorded positive tests. 

Those records are being re-processed and the Ohio COVID-19 Dashboard will be updated to accurately reflect the correct date that a positive test was recorded. The dashboard daily case change will appear with higher numbers until the records are processed through Thursday.

Disclaimers will appear next to each date to notify dashboard site-goers of the inaccurate information.

The positive COVID-19 tests that will appear as 24-hour totals were actually recorded positives from March 7, 2021 through December 3.

It is unclear if the issue was responsible for Ohio's COVID-19 Dashboard being offline on Monday.