First State Times

7.5 percent of COVID-19 tests in February came back positive, according to the State of Delaware.

Of the 110,236 tests administered to Delaware residents in February, 8,312 were positive.

By February, Delaware had 234,314 total confirmed COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020.

The virus and its complications have claimed 2,572 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	898
2	706
3	572
4	480
5	459
6	289
7	274
8	477
9	401
10	380
11	319
12	287
13	174
14	222
15	394
16	346
17	265
18	166
19	172
20	67
21	102
22	155
23	185
24	148
25	130
26	95
27	59
28	90