In total in the region, there are 75 Butler County test-confirmed cases; five in Champaign County; 10 in Clark County; 32 in Darke County; 15 in Greene County; 90 in Miami County; 109 in Montgomery County; five in Preble County; and 37 in Warren County, according to the latest update from Ohio Department of Health, as well as some additional cases recently recorded by county officials.
Health officials say test-confirmed cases are only a small part of the picture and people should assume there are far more people sick with the virus.
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These increased cases represent the virus spreading as well as more tests that had been pending coming back with confirmations.
Of the 109 Montgomery County cases, 31 people needed to be hospitalized. Of those who had been hospitalized or are currently hospitalized, two are in their 30s, three in their 40s, 11 in their 50s, eight in their 60s and four in their 80s or older.
In Miami County, out of the 90 confirmed cases, public health officials are aware of 21 who are health care workers and 31 cases associated with long term care. The deaths are still being investigated, by Miami County Public Health said as far as they are aware right now the deaths are all associated with nursing homes.
Warren County reported 37 confirmed COVID-19 cases on Monday. The total is six more than were reported Friday and slightly widens the age range to 20 to 76 years old, according to the Warren County Health District. Officials are now tracing who the people who tested positive had been in personal contact with.
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The state now has new data on recoveries as well as the demographics of those who are ill.
Gov. Mike DeWine said Monday that 303 of the state’s test-confirmed patients who required hospitalization have been released. That’s about 25% of total hospitalizations since the start of the outbreak.
About 25% of cases in Ohio don’t have a race listed and some people are opting out of providing that information. Out of the data available so far, along with the 25% with no race listed, about 51% of people with a confirmed case are white, 18% are black, and about 6% are multiracial or list another race. With ethnicity, about 2% of people with confirmed cases identified as Hispanic or Latino, about 58% as non Hispanic or Latino and about 39% did not have an ethnicity identified.
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