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COVID-19 Cases Up 36% in Past Week

Average daily coronavirus cases reported in Orange County jumped 36% in the past week with about 2,426 cases reported each day on average, according to the OC Health Care Agency.

In the past two weeks, cases are up 130% and there are five times more cases in the past month, with 50,000 total cases reported in the month ending Dec. 18.

Testing, meanwhile, has increased 34% in the past week and has nearly doubled in the past month.

There have been 116,377 cases reported in Orange County to date; about 1.8 million tests have been conducted.

Go here for more updates on how OC companies are responding to coronavirus.

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