March 11, 2021 9:40 a.m.

The Oregon Health Authority’s COVID-19 Weekly Report shows decreases in daily cases and hospitalizations from the previous week. Weekly reported deaths were higher.

OHA reported 1,729 new daily cases of COVID-19 during the week of Monday, March 1st through Sunday March 7th. That’s a decrease of 35 percent from the previous week.

New COVID-19 related hospitalizations also dropped from 164 to 139, which is a 15 percent decline from last week, and the lowest weekly total in five months.

Reported COVID-19 related deaths increased to 86, up from 57 last week.

There were 129,442 tests for COVID-19 for the week of February 28th through March 6th. That was a 7 percent increase from the previous week. The percentage of positive tests was 2.8 percent, which represents the lowest percentage since Oregon adopted the test-based method in mid-November.

The weekly report is linked: https://www.oregon.gov/oha/covid19/Documents/DataReports/COVID-19-Weekly-Outbreak-Report-2021-3-10-FINAL.pdf