Coronavirus Cases Increase by more than 3,000 over Weekend
The Arizona Department of Health Services reports that the state’s total COVID-19 case count has reached 28,296 as of today.
Death Toll at 1,070
The ADHS also reports that as of today, the COVID-19 death toll in Arizona has risen to 1,070. People aged 65 and older make up 76.9 percent of these deaths.
ADHS Hospital Bed Reports Change
On Saturday, June 6, the Arizona Department of Health Services released a statement regarding the reports of available hospital beds on their COVID-19 Data Dashboard. The statement said that when the Stay Home, Stay Healthy, Stay Connected order was issued, hospitals had time to increase their surge bed numbers. (Surge beds are beds which are not in use but have the potential to be set up and used later.) Previously, its methods of reporting available hospital beds included reporting surge beds in its total numbers. These surge bed numbers were incorrectly counted, thus creating an inaccurate percentage of available beds in hospitals. ADHS has said that their updated calculation method “shows the current bed availability without calculating in the additional (surge) beds hospitals added under Executive Order 2020-10.”
Coronavirus Tests
As of June 89the ADHS reports that 409,174 COVID-19 tests have been completed in Arizona. Maricopa County has the most reported tests, at 252,366, equating to 61.7 percent of Arizona’s total completed COVID-19 tests.
