August 18, 2020 3:55 a.m.

On Monday the Oregon Health Authority released its weekly testing report for COVID-19, which showed that as of August 15th, the state’s cumulative positive testing rate is 4.5 percent of test reports.

The release said that is considerably lower than the national average of 9 percent. Of the 25,678 tests performed and reported the week of August 9th-15th, 1,388, or 5.4 percent were positive. The release said that rate is likely to rise as test results continue to be reported to the OHA. It said, “it is reassuring that test positivity is relatively stable, which suggests that the number of people newly infected with COVID-19 each week is no longer increasing rapidly”.