By City News Service US-HEALTH-VIRUS-VACCINE-DISNEY SANTA ANA (CNS) - Orange County is expected to release new COVID-19 figures today after no updates were provided Sunday due to the Easter holiday. The county had reported 248 new cases and seven additional deaths Saturday, along with another drop in coronavirus hospitalizations. Saturday's case numbers represented a spike from Friday, when only 90 new cases were reported, and Thursday, when 81 cases were logged. The number of county residents hospitalized with the virus, however, dropped from 118 Friday to 109, with the number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care remaining at 23. OC has logged 251,102 cases and 4,768 deaths since the pandemic began, according to the Orange County Health Care Agency.