First State Times

There were 7,408 new COVID-19 cases found across Delaware in February, according to the State of Delaware.

This is a decrease of 58,568 from the month before.

By February, Delaware had 234,308 total confirmed COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020.

The virus and its complications have claimed 2,560 lives by the end of February.

Governor John C. Carney declared a new state of emergency in Delaware in early 2022 as COVID-19 cases surged in the winter season. The state of emergency requires indoor masking for everyone in schools.

The recent surge of the Omicron COVID-19 variant caused "an unpleasant mixture of dread, fatigue and deja vu" almost two years into the pandemic, according to a report from McKinsey & Company.

Past data is continually updated by the State's health department.

Day in February	New Confirmed Case
1	480
2	780
3	570
4	455
5	425
6	285
7	208
8	396
9	501
10	409
11	270
12	232
13	222
14	132
15	176
16	343
17	267
18	220
19	135
20	122
21	75
22	97
23	120
24	136
25	130
26	107
27	73
28	42