Area COVID-19 cases continue climbing

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Lincoln County recorded its ninth COVID-19 related death last week, the Oklahoma State Department of Health reported, and the county’s positive cases over the past week has jumped by 31.

That put the county’s total at 334 on Tuesday. The latest death is a female in the 65 and older age group, OSDH said.

In Pottawatomie County, the number of people testing positive for the virus climbed by 98 during the same period for a total of 970.

As of Tuesday, the combined number of positive cases in the two counties stood at 1,304, an increase of 129 in the past week.

Also as of Tuesday, there have been 18 reported deaths in the two counties, nine from each county. Total number of people who have recovered in the two counties is 1,059, according to OSDH figures. In Pottawatomie County, 777 have recovered and 282 have recovered in Lincoln County.

The combined number recovered in the two counties four weeks ago stood at 633.

Statewide as of Tuesday, 65,053 have tested positive, there have been 854 deaths and 54,269 who have recovered. Active cases stood at 9,930, the OSDH said, with 860,086 having tested negative.

Four weeks ago, the number of positives statewide was 44,728. The statewide number of deaths four weeks ago attributed to the virus stood at 618.

On Tuesday of this week, the OSDH reported 833 new positive cases confirmed and one more person had died.

There were 472 currently hospitalized on Tuesday, the agency said.