CDC reports 79 additional COVID-19 deaths in Oklahoma

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Well being officers are reporting greater than 1,700 new COVID-19 circumstances since final week’s knowledge was launched in Oklahoma.

OSDH introduced final month that it was discontinuing its each day state of affairs updates that monitor the each day case counts, and as an alternative, launch weekly knowledge on Thursdays.

On Thursday, knowledge from the Oklahoma State Division of Well being exhibits that the state has had 1,038,224 confirmed circumstances of COVID-19 since March of 2020.

That’s an total improve of 1,745 circumstances from final week’s numbers.

At this level, officers imagine there are 979 energetic circumstances of COVID-19 in Oklahoma.

In accordance with the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, Oklahoma has seen 15,815 deaths as of Thursday. That’s a rise of 79 deaths.

Officers say there have been 84 Oklahomans hospitalized with COVID-19 on common over the previous three days. Authorities additionally famous that there have been 24 pediatric hospitalizations for COVID-19 included in that quantity.

Well being leaders say over 2.79 million Oklahomans have acquired their preliminary COVID-19 vaccine, whereas 2.25 million have accomplished the collection.