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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) COVID-19 has claimed eight more lives in Oregon, including Crook County s eighth death, raising the state’s death toll to 1,558, the Oregon Health Authority reported Wednesday.
OHA also reported 764 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, bringing the state total to 120,223 cases.
Wednesday’s case count is lower than anticipated because a server outage led to unscheduled database downtime Tuesday, OHA said. In addition, Wednesday’s Tableau updates will not include electronic laboratory reporting information from Tuesday. The agency said, We anticipate that electronic laboratory reporting information will be updated tomorrow (Thursday).
January 07 2021
State health officials also report 867 new cases and 10 additional deaths on Thursday, Jan. 7.
The percentage of reported COVID-19 vaccines in the state barely increased on Thursday, despite Oregon Gov. Kate Brown directing the Oregon Health Authority to get significantly more people inoculated.
The OHA announced on Jan. 7 that only 27% of vaccine doses delivered to sites across the state have been administered. That is just two percentage points more than on Monday, when Brown ordered the OHA to vaccinate 12,000 people per day by the end of the next two weeks.
According to the OHA, only 5,249 people were inoculated on Thursday. Although 250,100 doses of vaccine have been delivered to sites across Oregon, only 66,920 people have been vaccinated to date.