May 17, 2020
PORTLAND, Ore. — The state’s death toll from
COVID-19 is unchanged from yesterday and remains at 137, the Oregon Health
Authority reported at 8 a.m. today.
Oregon
Health Authority reported nine new confirmed cases and three new presumptive
cases of COVID-19 as of 8 a.m. today bringing the state total to 3,623. The new
confirmed and presumptive cases reported today are in the following counties:
Deschutes (1), Douglas (1), Lincoln (1), Marion (3), Multnomah (5), Polk (1).
Due to data
reconciliation, a confirmed case in Clackamas county was determined not to be a
case. The number of cases between 40-49 was reduced by one as a result of this
change.
To see more
case and county level data, please visit the Oregon Health Authority website,
which OHA updates once a day: www.healthoregon.org/coronavirus.
OHA is now
including the Oregon COVID-19 Daily Update in the daily news
release. The Daily Update is a detailed look at COVID-19 in Oregon, including
testing data, hospital capacity, and cases broken down by demographic
information such as age groups, gender, race and ethnicity.
Stay
informed about COVID-19:
Oregon response: The Oregon Health
Authority and Oregon Office of Emergency Management lead the state
response.
United States response: The Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention leads the U.S. response.
Global response: The World Health Organization
guides the global response.