The Oregon Health Authority’s COVID-19 Weekly Report, released Wednesday, showed continued steep increases in daily cases and hospitalizations.  The OHA reported 8,304 new daily cases of COVID-19 during the week that ended Sunday, a 40% increase over the previous week.  There were 322 new COVID-19 hospitalizations, up from 256 last week.  That marked the fifth consecutive week of increases.  There were 40 reported COVID-19 related deaths, up from 25 reported the previous week.  There were 119,416 tests for COVID-19 for the week that ended Saturday.  The percentage of positive tests increased to 9.5%.