COVID-19 Continues to Roll

PORTLAND, Ore. — COVID-19 claimed two more lives in Oregon Thursday, raising the state’s death toll to 249, according to the Oregon Health Authority. Oregon Health Authority reported 437 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 bringing the state total to 13,509. Thursday’s case count is the highest since the onset of the pandemic. The rise in cases is attributed to the spread of COVID-19 from social gatherings and sporadic spread. Worksite outbreaks and long term care facility outbreaks also are contributing cases to the daily count. Both deaths Thursday were from Malheur County, a 97-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman. Hood River County reported 5 new cases yesterday, upping the overall count in the county to 115…..Wasco County had 2 new cases yesterday, with 124. Sherman County had none, but Morrow County reported 8 new cases. In Washington, there was 1 new case in Klickitat County, raising their overall total to 80. Skamania County reported 2 new cases with their total going up to 38. Washington State has now recorded 44,313 cases with 1,427 deaths.  

Adblock Detected

We have detected that you are using an adblock in your browser’s plugin to disable advertising from loading on our website.

Your Experience is very important to us, and your Ad Blocker enabled will cause our site not to perform as expected.  Turn off the Ad Blocker or add our site to your exceptions.  After you turn off or add exception please refresh the site or click ok.

Please note: Clicking OK below will NOT disable your ad blocker. You will need to make that change within the ad blocker's settings.

OK