The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Center for Health Statistics reported 80 additional deaths due to the coronavirus on Friday. No further details were provided.
On Wednesday, the state announced it would no longer report death statistics and rather begin using a Provisional Death Count from the CDC and NCHS in its daily updates. That number reflects COVID deaths based on death certificates. Recently, Oklahoma's reported death count was about 2,500 deaths shy of what the CDC was reporting.
Under the new standard, there have been a total of 7,202 deaths due to the virus since last March.
While the state is using a Provisional Death Count in its weekday emails, that number still does not yet appear on the state's coronavirus update website.
917 new infections were reported, for a total of 427,558 positive cases since last March.
In the past seven days, Oklahoma has reported 4,535 new cases for an average of 648 infections per day.
410,778 people — more than 96 percent of the total cases — have since been classified as having recovered from the virus.
There are 12,246 active cases in the state.
