Due to technical difficulties with Facebook, the Lane County Public Health Press Conference will be recorded at 11:15 and posted later today on the Lane County COVID-19 website.

Lane County Public Health notified of 37 additional positive COVID-19  cases.This makes a total of one thousand two hundred and seventy six (1276) cases.

1,276 (+37)total cases-  Note that this includes confirmed and presumptive.

Of our cases (confirmed and presumptive): 

Hospitalized: 10 (+1)

Deaths: 18 (no change)

Infectious: 189 (+10)

At least 65,242 negative tests (total individuals tested by result)

Individuals who had contact with these community members will be contacted by Lane County Public Health so they can work with their health care providers on next steps. Communicable disease investigations are underway. If a public contact exposure point is identified, that information will be shared with the public.

To see data related to COVID-19 in Lane County, please visit www.LaneCountyOR.gov/data.

* Presumptive cases are people without a positive PCR test who have COVID-19-like symptoms and had close contact with a confirmed case. Though not confirmed by a positive diagnostic test, presumptive cases have a high likelihood of having COVID-19 because of the specific nature of the symptoms and known exposure.

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