OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska continues to report record numbers of people hospitalized with the coronavirus, and the state had the seventh-highest rate of new cases in the nation.
The state said 760 people were hospitalized with the virus Saturday, up from 748 a day earlier.
Nebraska also reported 1,702 new cases to give the state 82,395 cases, according to Nebraska's online virus tracker. The state said two new deaths were reported Saturday to give the state 703 deaths linked to the virus.
The seven-day rolling average of daily new cases in Nebraska increased over the past two weeks from 828 new cases per day on Oct. 24 to 1,578.29 new cases per day on Saturday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
The rate of new cases per 100,000 Nebraska residents over the past two weeks registered 994.16 on Saturday, according to an Associated Press analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University.