A Centers for Disease Control illustration of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Arizona on Sunday reported 5 COVID-19 deaths and 1,335 additional confirmed cases as the number of coronavirus-related hospitalizations dipped below 1,000 for the first time in four months.
As of Friday, 966 COVID-19 patients occupied inpatient beds. That's down from 1,043 as of Thursday and about a fifth of the Jan. 11 pandemic high of 5,082.
However, Friday’s hospitalization numbers were still twice as high as the low between last summer’s surge and the worse but now-receding fall and winter surge.
The number of vaccine doses administered around Arizona was up to 2.1 million with more than 1.3 million people having received at least one shot. That’s more than 19% of the state’s population.
With the latest figures, the state’s pandemic totals rose to 826,454 cases with 16,328 known deaths. In Saturday’s weekly update from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Arizona ranked eighth in the nation for COVID-19 deaths per capita over the last seven days and 22nd in cases.
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