The Oklahoma State Department of Health reported 124 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, increasing the state's total to 5,086.
Texas County, with fewer than 20,000 residents, accounted for 65 of the new cases. It now has 606 reported cases of COVID-19, third most behind Oklahoma County's 1,035 and Tulsa County's 752.
Guymon is the site of a Seaboard Foods pork processing plant with an outbreak of COVID-19. State and local officials have collected hundreds of testing samples from employees this week and have started testing more people in the community as well.
One new death was reported Friday, a Washington County woman 65 or older. COVID-19 has now killed 285 Oklahomans since March 18.
The state health department considered 141 additional patients to have recovered on Friday, meaning they did not die, are not currently hospitalized and it has been at least 14 days since they tested positive for the coronavirus. Symptoms of COVID-19 have been reported to linger for several weeks. With 3,801 people now considered to have recovered from the illness, the state has 1,285 confirmed, active cases.
According to state data, 863 people have been hospitalized to date, and 215 are currently hospitalized.
The health department reported on Friday 118,751 tests have been performed to date, giving the state a positive test rate of 4.3%. Experts recommend the positive test rate be lower than 10%.
