North Central Public Health District says a total of seven residents of Flagstone Senior Living who tested positive for COVID-19 have now died. District Health Officer Dr. Mimi McDonell says the deaths have occurred since September 26, with the latest on Monday. The deaths have occurred among residents in the facility’s memory care unit, where all 30 of the residents have tested positive for COVID. Staff and their families have also contracted COVID in the outbreak. Seven of the residents were sent to a long-term care facility in the Willamette Valley that specializes in caring for COVID patients. McDonell noted the transfer was done to ease the care load at Flagstone. Wasco County has now seen ten total fatalities as a result of COVID-19.