Oklahoma reports 3,000 new COVID-19 cases, largest increase since September

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Posted at 12:29 PM, Dec 10, 2021

and past updated 2021-12-10 13:29:20-05

TULSA, Okla. — The Oklahoma State Department of Health reported much than 3,000 caller cases of COVID-19 connected Thursday, the largest one-day lawsuit summation since September.

The 3,003 caller cases successful the study released Friday bring the state's 7-day rolling mean of caller cases to 1,561.

The 7-day rolling mean of caller cases hadn't been supra 1,500 since Oct. 1.

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A one-day summation of much than 3,000 cases hasn't been reported successful Oklahoma since Sept. 3 successful the midst of the delta variant's archetypal surge.

Despite the caller uptick successful cases, astir of the cases person been owed to the virus's delta variant. The authorities hasn't recovered the emerging omicron variant successful immoderate of its investigating samples arsenic of Thursday.

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See the state's Dec. 10 COVID-19 study here.

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