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Positive COVID-19 cases in Delaware reach 11,000

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Positive COVID-19 cases in Delaware now top 11,000.  State health official announced 78 new cases Friday, bringing the total to 11,017 since March 11th. 

The latest numbers come a day after Gov. John Carney announced Delaware will wait on moving to Phase 3 of its reopening plan 

Carney says he plans to make a decision early next week - based in part on results from a large testing event Thursday in Rehoboth Beach that should provide insight into infection rates in the state’s beach communities.

Delaware is seeing its 5-day averages for percent of people testing positive and positive cases start to trend up this week.

But hospitalizations dropped Friday by 15 falling to 78.  No additional deaths were reported.  The state’s death toll remains at 507.

Fifteen Delawareans recovered from the virus.  Overall, over 91-thousand COVID-19 tests in the First State have returned negative.

The state also updated its statistics on the virus in long-term care facilities Friday.

 

Residents of long-term care facilities accounted for 1,164 of the state’s positive COVID-19 cases – up 52 from a week ago.  They’ve also had 278 of Delaware’s 433 deaths – up 51 from last Friday. More than sixty of the total virus-related deaths DPH announced this week were not new, but rather previously unreported to the DPH Epidemiology Section. DPH has recorded 461 positive cases, and one death among workers at long-term care facilities.

 

To date, 34 long-term care facilities statewide have recorded at least one COVID-19 related death. Thirteen of those facilities have had 10 or more deaths. Harrison House Senior Living in Georgetown and Genesis Healthcare's Milford Center still lead the resident death tolls, with 39 and 33 virus-related deaths respectively. 

 

DPH reported an increase of at least five virus-related deaths since last week at Pike Creek's ManorCare Health Services in Pike Creek, Newark Manor Nursing Home and Wilmington's Brandywine Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and Parkview Nursing and Rehabilitation.

 
This story has been updated to include statistics on the virus in long-term care facilities.