Coronavirus updates Thursday: Lane County reports 106 cases
Register-Guard
Lane County has reported 106 cases of confirmed or presumptive cases of COVID-19 Thursday, raising the countywide total to 7,456. The death toll remains at 95. There are 37 people hospitalized, an increase of two since Wednesday. There are seven patients in intensive care unit beds and one on a ventilator, which is unchanged from Wednesday.
The count of those considered infections is 381, an increase of 3.8 percent since Wednesday s 367. There are 540 under monitoring, down slightly from Wednesday s 546, and 5,319 first vaccine doses have been administered, up 12 percent from Wednesday s 4,760.
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