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More COVID-19 cases have been reported in just the first 11 days of January in Ohio than any full month, except two, since the start of the pandemic.

There’s been 210,786 COVID-19 cases reported for January as of Tuesday. The only entire months with more cases than the first 11 days of January are 279,317 in December 2020 and 324,878 last month.

This month currently is on pace to have nearly 600,000 COVID-19 cases.

Ohio has exceeded 18,000 new cases per day since Dec. 29. Before then, no day had posted that level of COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.

The Ohio Department of Health reported 19,611 new cases Tuesday. It is the sixth most for a day ever.

The most was 20,598 on Dec. 31.

The ODH also reported 363 new COVID-19 deaths Tuesday during the past four days. The ODH reports COVID-19 deaths on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Among those 363 deaths were 26 in Trumbull, 18 in Mahoning and 10 in Columbiana counties.

On Tuesday, The three counties exceeded 2,000 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.

Mahoning has 895, Trumbull has 736 and Columbiana has 395 for a total of 2,026.

The state also exceeded 100,000 total COVID-19 hospitalizations since the start of the pandemic. It had 100,272 as of Tuesday.

The state had set new records daily between Dec. 26 and Monday for the most people in hospital beds with COVID-19. That record was broken Tuesday with 6,727 people in Ohio hospitals with COVID-19. But it still is the second most ever for a day with Monday’s 6,749 being the record.

Ohio’s COVID-19 hospitalization rate is among the highest in the country.