PHOENIX — Arizona has reported nearly 7,000 additional known COVID-19 cases. The newly confirmed cases Friday represent the third highest number of cases in one day since the pandemic began.
VIEW LARGER A Dec. 11 screenshot of Arizona's COVID-19 cases by day. The date a case is reported by the state health department does not represent the day the test was conducted, meaning a day's reported case numbers aren't mirrored exactly in such a graph.
Virus-related hospitalizations have continued to climb during the current surge. The state reported 6,983 additional known cases and 91 known deaths. That boosts the state’s totals to 394,512 cases and 7,245 deaths. COVID-19-related hospitalizations as of Thursday were at 3,492. That's just short of the hospitalization peak during the state's COVID-19 surge last summer.
Hospital officials and public health experts have warned that the continuing surge of COVID-19 cases will exceed the state's health system’s capacity this month.
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