10July 2020
Half of California's 58 counties are now on the state's coronavirus watchlist as the number of infections, hospitalizations and deaths continue to approach unmatched levels.
The state reported 7,798 brand-new cases of COVID-19 on Friday. On Thursday, California set a one-day record with 9,816 freshly verified COVID-19 cases and 137 associated deaths– the second-highest overall on a single day given that the pandemic started, officials said.Statewide, there have actually been more than 304,000 verified coronavirus infections and almost 6,900 deaths.Los Angeles County included 2,667 brand-new cases on Friday alone, pushing its cumulative count above 127,000. Ad An additional 51 deaths were reported by the county's health department. Its total death toll is now just above 3,700. However the surge of new cases in California on Thursday was
fueled, in part, by Stanislaus County, which made a change to its reporting systems that led to the addition of almost 1,400 cases that had actually not been formerly tallied.Even without those cases, however, California still would have seen one of its highest single-day counts to date. Advertisement In all, the state is now keeping track of 29 counties
elevated illness transmission and/or increasing hospitalizations– up from 26 earlier in the week. Among the latest additions is Placer County, which”is experiencing increased hospitalizations and restricted healthcare facility capability,”according to the state. Elements driving the spread of COVID-19 there, state authorities said,
“include large families where keeping away from others while ill is hard, neighborhood and extended household gatherings, and indoor work environments where physical distancing is hard.”If a county is on the monitoring list for a minimum of 3 consecutive days, the state will require it to close bars and indoor dining in dining establishments, along with other indoor service operations, for a minimum of three weeks. Advertisement The state's watchlist also now includes Yuba and Sutter counties, which got headlines in May when they began enabling some services to reopen
in defiance of the statewide stay-at-home order. In a video declaration Wednesday, Yuba-Sutter Health Officer Dr. Phuong Luu said that although the region was” succeeding just two months ago,” conditions have intensified since”regrettably the neighborhood ended up being too lax, too contented.””We were excessively positive that we crushed COVID-19. We never ever crushed it, “she said.” We just flattened the curve. However the curve never ever went completely away and now is roaring back with exponential development in terms of new cases every day. “Advertisement The state has identified office transmission and “family clusters connecting to friend and family events “as elements adding to the spread of the disease in those counties. Nevertheless, authorities stated” 40%are unidentified due to cases unable or not going to provide source
of direct exposure.””
It's always going to be this dance– 2 steps forward, one step back– if we see aggravating of the scenario so that our fragile health care system is not decimated and doesn't enter into crisis,”Luu stated.” And this dance will continue until we have a vaccine.”The complete watchlist now consists of counties from nearly every part of California
: Colusa, Contra Costa, Fresno, Glenn, Imperial, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, Madera, Marin, Merced, Monterey, Napa, Orange, Placer, Riverside, Sacramento, San Benito, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Joaquin, Santa Barbara, Solano, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tulare, Ventura,
Yolo and Yuba. Ad Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that the state will continue to”do more to keep an eye on and work supplying technical help”for all the counties on the watchlist “to make sure that their requirements are satisfied.”” Tulare County, Imperial County, L.A. County [and] Kings County continue to be areas of out of proportion focus for our group as it connects to the existing trajectory of the virus in those neighborhoods and current capability to fulfill the requirements in those counties,”he said. In the middle of troubling boosts in infections and hospitalizations in the region, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti alerted a number of times today that locals might again be bought to stay home. Throughout a press conference Friday, he reminded Angelenos that mingling and gathering with people outside their households is still not enabled. Advertisement”We're not back to a safer-at-home order, however we all need to do our part to minimize the spread of COVID-19,”he said.Twenty thousand people were evaluated at city and county testing websites on Friday, Garcetti said. To meet rising need, city testing capability will increase by 25%next week. More than 1 million people have been evaluated by the city and county, he said.Since Memorial Day, hospitalizations of coronavirus clients have more than doubled in Orange, Riverside and Ventura counties, and more
than tripled in San Bernardino County. In the same duration, hospitalizations have actually risen by 35%in L.A. County and 28 %in San Diego County.L.A.
County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Thursday that”absolutely nothing can be off the table in the pandemic “however that she personally hopes”we don't need to go back there. I hope that we figure out a method to take care of each other, to be reasonable about what we're doing.
“Ad Times personnel authors Ben Welsh, Hannah Fry, Leila Miller, and Rong-Gong Lin II contributed to this report.