CLEVELAND, Ohio Mayor Frank Jacksons administration announced Saturday that 70 more cases of COVID-19 coronavirus have been confirmed in the city.

No new deaths were reported. Eighty-three Cleveland residents have died as a result of the coronavirus.

One previously reported case was removed from the tally as it was determined the individual was not a Cleveland resident.

The new cases lift Clevelands total confirmed cases to 3,640 and involve patients ranging in age from less than 7 years old to their 90s.

Cleveland Department of Public Health has identified one additional 40 probable cases, bringing that total to 528 cases. Those cases lifted the citys total caseload to 4,168. Those infected have ranged in age from less than 1 year old to more than 100 years old.

Fourteen percent of those cases required hospitalization, according to the Cleveland Department of Public Health.

Fifty-four percent of the cases involve women. About 60% of all those infected are African American. About 17% are white. Asian residents comprise about 1% of the cases. Race is unknown for 13% of the cases.

The Cleveland Department of Public Health will work to identify any people who were in close contact with the newly confirmed patients to determine who now would require testing or monitoring for symptoms of COVID-19.

Confirmed and probable coronavirus cases have increased 1,542, bringing the total number to 73,822, according to the Ohio Department of Health on Saturday.

The state reported, on Friday, a new record high of 1,679 new cases in 24 hours.

The previous record was last Friday, when there were 1,525 new cases.

The number of deaths increase from Friday by 20 to 3,132.

As of Friday, Cuyahoga County reported 6,674 cases of coronavirus. That figure includes 743 classified as probable cases. There were 336 reported deaths. The numbers exclude the cases from the city of Cleveland.

The Centers for Disease Control and Preventions updated tally on Saturday reported 3,630,587 cases and 138,782 deaths in the United States.

Those numbers tend to lag other reporting sites.

Johns Hopkins University of Medicine reported that as of Saturday evening 3,698,209 people had become infected with the coronavirus. By its tally, deaths in the United States totaled 139,949.

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