PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island registered one more death from COVID-19 and 176 newly reported positive cases over the weekend, state health officials said Monday.
The state Department of Health also said 93 people are currently hospitalized with the virus, the highest total in more than a month. Eight of the patients are in the intensive care unit and two are on ventilators, the agency said.
The new cases bring the state’s coronavirus death toll to more than 1,000 and its total cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic started to nearly 20,000.
In recent days Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo has been enacting tougher social and economic measures to control the spread of the virus as cases of COVID-19 continue to rise in the state.
