OSDH reports nearly 5,000 additional COVID-19 cases in OK

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Health officers say COVID-19 cases are on the rise in Oklahoma.

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

On Thursday, knowledge from the Oklahoma State Department of Health exhibits that the state has had 1,059,864 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since March of 2020.

That’s an general enhance of 4,911 cases from final week’s numbers.

At this level, officers imagine there are 7,438 energetic cases of COVID-19 in Oklahoma.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oklahoma has seen 16,145 deaths as of June 3. No additional loss of life knowledge was launched.

Officials say there’s at present a nationwide, non permanent pause in the processing of loss of life certificates knowledge that started June 6 to improve the National Vital Statistics System.

During the pause Oklahoma will proceed to report back to the CDC and NCHS, however the pause will end result in the state not receiving knowledge again. This means the provisional loss of life counts for COVID-19 won’t be up to date for a number of weeks.

OSDH will report knowledge occurring throughout the paused timeframe as soon as processing resumes.

Officials say there have been 130 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.

Health leaders say over 2.83 million Oklahomans have obtained their preliminary COVID-19 vaccine, whereas 2.28 million have accomplished the sequence.