Oregon

CORONAVIRUS Oregon state health officials announced 57 new positive tests. PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Health Authority reported 57 new cases of coronavirus in the state on Wednesday.But for the first time in over three weeks, state health officials reported no new deaths of COVID-19. The last time the OHA reported no deaths in Oregon…

Oregon has 2,002 known cases of COVID-19, according to Oregon Health Authority data released April 21. The state now counts 78 deaths as officially caused by COVID-19. The number of patients currently in the hospital due to confirmed or suspected cases is at 297, with 70 in the ICU and 35 on ventilators. Sixteen days ago, Oregon had…

CORONAVIRUS Gov. Kate Brown has not given a time frame for when the state's economy may begin reopening. PORTLAND, Ore. — Amid calls from Republican leaders to ease economic and social restrictions in rural areas, one model shows Oregon could still be at least another month away before beginning to reopen the economy.Under a projection…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Oregon appears to be an outlier as coronavirus cases start to peak in other states. Of all the states in America, Oregon is one of five states expected to have the fewest COVID-19 deaths per capita. That's according to researchers at the University of Washington who developed a closely watched model.…

confounded scores of workers on Easter Sunday returned this Sunday morning, despite the state’s insistence that the problem has been fixed.After several hours the Oregon Employment Department said it has resolved the issue with its systems, which incorrectly told laid-off workers they had to restart their benefits claims. The department blamed a “record level of…