The Oregon Health Authority has officially recorded now 30,342 total cases of COVID-19 with 521 deaths statewide, up 1,477 cases and 22 deaths from the previous week. Now, two weeks after the Labor Day holiday weekend, the state of Oregon sees it first weekly rise in COVID-19 numbers in the past 6 weeks, breaking a consecutive 5 week period of lower numbers for the State.
In the previous week, from September 5th through Friday, September 11th, the state of Oregon recorded 1,264 new cases statewide. In the past week, from Saturday September 12th, through Friday September 18th, the Oregon Health Authority recorded 1,477 new COVID-19 cases, adding 213 more new cases in one week for the first time in 6 weeks.
Last week Governor Brown announced that the counties of Jackson, Jefferson and Umatilla had met the requirements to be removed from her ‘County Watchlist’ and announced Friday, September 18th, that now Morrow County’s application to move to Phase 2 of reopening has been approved effective immediately, leaving Malheur the only remaining county on the ‘County Watchlist’.
Oregonians continue to see the same 5 northern Oregon counties of Clackamas, Marion, Multnomah, Umatilla, and Washington continue to comprise 68% of all of the state of Oregon’s cases adding 64 more cases than the week prior with 886 of the states 1,477 new cases in these counties alone. In the past week these 5 counties now report 20,492 of the states 30,342 total COVID-19 cases as well as 73% of the state’s deaths from COVID-19 reporting and 78% of the states new deaths in the past week with 17 of the 22 new deaths, and 378 of the states 521 total reported deaths.
Since Curry County’s last report Wednesday, September 16th, it now reports testing 1,582 individuals with 1,556 negative tests, and now has 6 active cases of COVID-19 while the county has 20 recovered cases and 0 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic as of Friday, September 18th.
Del Norte County Department of Health and Human Services reported testing 8,450 individuals with 136 cases, 7 active cases, and 1 new positive case reported to Public Health, with 3 current hospitalizations and 1 death.
Humboldt County to the south of Del Norte County reports 482 total cases, adding 35 new CoVID-19 cases in the past week after testing 27,190 individuals with now 52 active cases, 424 recoveries, 27 hospitalizations and now 6 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic as of Friday, September 18th.
Coos County to the north, reported testing 6,422 individuals with 6,319 negative tests, adding 5 new cases of COVID-19 in the past week with now 136 total positive cases since the beginning of the pandemic, with 25 recoveries and 0 deaths.
Josephine County reports testing 11,367 individuals with 11,215 negative results, adding 6 new cases in the past week, 180 total positive cases of COVID-19 of which 113 are recovered cases, and 2 deaths.
Jackson County continues to see significant increases after reporting another 78 cases of COVID-19 this past week after testing 32,322 individuals with 31,387 negative test results, 1,021 total cases of COVID-19, 289 recovered cases and 3 deaths as of Friday September 18th.
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