Pottawatomie County has recorded its 10th death attributed to COVID-19 within the last week and the number of people testing positive in Pottawatomie County has climbed to nearly 1,400, the Oklahoma State Department of Health says.
The latest death in Pottawatomie County is a male in the 65 and older age group, according to the OSDH.
The number of people testing positive for the virus in Pottawatomie County as of Tuesday this week stood at 1,371. The county’s total on Tuesday a week ago was 1,234.
That’s a jump of 137 new cases in the past week.
Two weeks ago that number was 1,086. Three weeks ago it was 970.
Lincoln County’s number on Tuesday was 460. A week ago it was 398 the OSDH said.
That’s an increase of 62. It was 358 two weeks ago.
Combined, the total number of positive cases in the two counties now stands at 1,831. Last week that number was 1,632.
Also as of Tuesday, there have been 20 reported deaths in the two counties, 10 in each of the two counties.
Total number of people who have recovered in the two counties is 1,473, according to OSDH figures.
In Pottawatomie County, 1,111 have recovered and 362 have recovered in Lincoln County.
Statewide as of Tuesday, 86,219 have tested positive, there have been 1,018 deaths and 71,957 who have recovered.
Active cases stood at 13,244 the OSDH said.
Last week there were 79,072, testing positive, there had been 962 deaths and 65,482 had recovered.
There were 12,628 active cases a week ago.
About six weeks ago, the number of positives statewide stood at 44,728.
The statewide number of deaths at that same time attributed to the virus stood at 618.
On Tuesday of this week, the OSDH reported 1,024 new positive cases confirmed and 11 additional deaths.
There were 618 currently hospitalized on Tuesday, the agency said.
The OSDH reports 1,106,184 have tested negative.