Gov. Mike DeWine issued a 21-day curfew in Ohio during his Tuesday coronavirus briefing. The curfew will begin on Thursday evening, and goes from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m. Retail establishments need to be closed and people need to be at home during the curfew period, the governor said.
鈥淲e literally have to build a bridge to get from here to the point when we're going to have the immunity from the vaccine,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e got to get over this bad, bad spot.鈥�
The on Tuesday reported 7,079 new COVID-19 cases and 368 new COVID-19 hospitalizations in the last 24 hours. Ohio currently has 3,648 hospitalized confirmed-COVID-19 patients. Hospitalizations have gone up dramatically and COVID-positive ICU patients have nearly tripled since a month ago, DeWine said.
Every county in Ohio is at least twice the high incidence level set by the , the governor said. The state鈥檚 7-day average positivity rate is 12.8%.
鈥淭he bad news is that our situation in Ohio is deteriorating,鈥� DeWine said. 鈥淲e see more and more cases, more and more people in the hospital. And we've got to turn this thing around."
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