(Portland, OR)  --  Over half a dozen more Oregonians are dead after contracting COVID-19.  The Oregon Health Authority reported seven new coronavirus deaths yesterday, raising the state's death toll from the pandemic to two-thousand-683.  The health department also reported 267 new cases of COVID-19 and one new hospitalization for the virus.  Oregon has now seen more than 202-thousand cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began.