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Washington state’s coronavirus death toll climbed by 15 to a total of 262 as of 11:59 p.m. April 1, the Washington Department of Health reported Thursday afternoon.

This marked a 6% increase in deaths over the day before. Since Thursday of last week when the state death toll was 147, death have increase by 78%.

The total number of confirmed cases rose to 6,585, a 10% increase from the day before. The number of people testing positive has now increased to 8.3% out of the total sample size of 79,418. Four percent of those testing positive have died, a mortality rate roughly 40 times worse than seasonal influenza.

For more information, see https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/Coronavirus.