OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Oklahoma health officials say the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 60 additional deaths related to COVID-19 in the state.

The Oklahoma State Department of Health announced in March 2022 that it was discontinuing its daily situation updates that monitor the daily case counts, and instead, release weekly data on Thursdays.

On Thursday, data from OSDH shows that the state has had 1,284,450 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since March of 2020.

That’s an overall increase of 2,899 cases from last week’s numbers.

Officials believe there are 4,784 active cases of COVID-19 in Oklahoma.

The CDC says Oklahoma has seen 17,887 deaths, which is an increase of 60 deaths from last week’s data.

According to officials, there were 242 Oklahomans hospitalized with COVID-19 on average over the past three days.

Officials also noted that there were 27 pediatric hospitalizations for COVID-19 included in that number.