Ohio Passes 7,000 Coronavirus Deaths

COLUMBUS, OH —Ohio's COVID-19 surge continues and another ignominious benchmark has been surpassed.

More than 7,000 Ohioans have now died from COVID-19 complications, the Ohio Department of Health announced.

In the past 24 hours, Ohio saw 63 deaths from COVID-19 confirmed on Monday, the state health department confirmed. That's slightly above the state's average of 61 COVID-19-related deaths per day.

With Monday's new deaths, 7,022 Ohioans have now died from COVID-19.

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On Monday, health officials confirmed 9,272 new COVID-19 cases among Ohioans, the sixth-most cases reported by the state since the pandemic began. That's up versus the state's rolling average of 8,521 new cases per day.

While cases and hospitalizations are still on the rise, Gov. Mike DeWine said he hopes cases are flattening. He said the state's curfew and stricter masking order have tamped down on the virus' spread.

"But this is still at much too high a level. This is unsustainable," DeWine said.

The governor said the state's wealth of backlogged COVID-19 tests will be filed Tuesday. He said that could result in a short-term spike in new cases.

COVID-19 hospitalizations were on par with the state's rolling average (338 per day), and intensive care unit (ICU) admissions were up slightly on Monday.

Here are all of Monday's numbers:

• New cases: 9,273
• New deaths: 63
• New hospitalizations: 336
• New ICU admissions: 40

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