Lincoln County has recorded its second death from COVID-19, the Coronavirus. The county’s total number of people testing positive now stands at 17, according to the Oklahoma State Department of Health.
Last week, 14 people in Lincoln County had tested positive for the virus. So the increase has been 3 since a week ago Tuesday.
Ten persons in Lincoln County have now recovered from the virus as of Tuesday this week the OSDH reports, as compared to 8 a week ago.
The total number of people testing positive from the virus in Pottawatomie County through Tuesday stands at 54. That’s a jump of only two from the 52 confirmed cases a week ago in the county.
Four persons in the county have died from the virus. That number is the same from a week ago. Of the 54 confirmed cases, 40 have recovered, according to the OSDH. A week ago Tuesday that number was 34.
The number of combined positive cases in Lincoln and Pottawatomie Counties now stands at 71. That’s an increase of only five from the 66 of a week ago.
The number of positive cases in the state stood at 4,732 Tuesday compared to the 4,127 of Tuesday a week ago. That’s an increase of 605 over the previous Tuesday.
OSDH reports that statewide 278 people have died, 31 more than the 247 deaths from a week ago, a sign the COVID-19 continues to decline in Oklahoma.
Of the 278 deaths reported, 134 are females and 144 are males, the OSDH reports.
Last Tuesday the number of people testing negative was more than 75,000. This week, the OSDH is reporting 101,082 have tested negative.