With Oregon still averaging over 1,000 new COVID-19 cases per day, the Oregon Health Authority announced Wednesday, January 27th, that they would no longer share details about individual deaths connected to the virus. On Thursday, January 28th, Governor Brown announced that vaccine that was allocated in some rural Oregon counties will be redirected to other counties.
In the state of Oregon, according to the Oregon Health Authority, Oregon has tested approximately 3,200,000 individuals and 188,000 individuals have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. A total of 7,738 individuals have required hospitalization since the outbreak, and unfortunately 1,938 have died.
Effective Friday, January 29th, Curry County moved from ‘Moderate Risk’ to ‘Low Risk’ under Governor Browns framework for assessing the risked posed by the spread of COVID-19 effective this Friday, January 29th. This change in ‘risk assessment’ allowed the easing of restrictions on some business and personal activities that had crippled small businesses through out the area.
Curry County’s latest numbers as reported Friday by the Oregon Health Authority, January, 29th, now reports testing 7,262 individuals with 6,005 negative tests, 257 total positive COVID-19 tests and has recorded now 329 total cases and 5 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
Del Norte County Department of Health and Human Services reported testing 12,524 with 11,641 negative results, 21 active cases and 883 total confirmed cases reported by Public Health, with 0 current hospitalization and 3 deaths.
Coos County to the north, reported testing 27,492 individuals with 26,430 negative tests, with now 1,070 total positive cases and now 16 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
Josephine County reports testing 39,931 individuals with 38,806 negative results, 1925 total positive cases of COVID-19 and 36 deaths.
Humboldt County to the south of Del Norte County reports 2,754 total cases after testing 66,515 individuals with 63,761 negative results, 308 active cases, 2,416 recoveries, 101 hospitalizations, and 30 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic as of Friday, January, 29th.
Jackson County continues to see significant increases after testing 153,930 individuals with 144,268 negative test results, 7,416 total cases of COVID-19 with now 98 deaths as of Friday, January, 29th.
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