(Portland, OR) -- Nearly three-dozen more Oregonians are dead after contracting COVID-19. The Oregon Health Authority reported 35 new coronavirus deaths yesterday, raising the state's death toll from the pandemic to five-thousand-814. The health authority also reported eight-thousand-40 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday along with 35 more hospitalizations for the virus, making for a total of 727 COVID-19 hospitalizations statewide.