LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - The number of people hospitalized with the coronavirus in Nebraska continues to increase steadily.
The state said another new record was set Sunday when 794 were hospitalized with COVID-19, up from 760 the day before. That number has more than doubled over the past three weeks as cases continued to surge in the state.
Nebraska reported 1,574 new cases Sunday to give the state 83,969 total cases since the pandemic began. The number of deaths linked to the virus remained unchanged at 703 Sunday, according to the state's online virus tracker.
The seven-day rolling average of daily new cases in Nebraska increased over the past two weeks from 840.14 new cases per day on Oct. 25 to 1,666.14 new cases per day on Sunday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
The rate of new virus cases in the state remained the seventh-highest in the nation on Sunday. The rate of new cases per 100,000 Nebraska residents over the past two weeks registered 1,045.58 on Sunday, according to an Associated Press analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University.