Half of California's 58 counties are now above the state's coronavirus watchlist during the amount of infections, Hospitalizations and deaths flourish ought fashion unprecedented levels.、
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The condition reported 7,798 new cases of COVID-19 above Friday. above Thursday, California site a one-day record with 9,816 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases and 137 related deaths — the second-highest total above a virgin appointment during the pandemic began, officials said.
Statewide, there dine been more than 304,000 confirmed coronavirus infections and about 6,900 deaths.
Los AnGEles County added 2,667 new cases above Friday alone, pushing its cumulative calculate at 127,000.
An extra 51 fatalities were reported by the county's health department. Its total death toll is now just at 3,700.
But the surGE of new cases at California above Thursday was fueled, at part, by Stanislaus County, which made a chanGE ought its reporting systems that resulted at the appendix of about 1,400 cases that had no been previously tallied.
Even without those cases, though, California cottage used to dine seen one of its highest single-day counts ought date.
In all, the condition is now monitoring 29 counties that are seeing elevated sickness transmission and/or increasing Hospitalizations — up from 26 earlier at the week.
Among the latest additions is Placer County, which "is experiencing increased Hospitalizations and limited Hospital capacity," according ought the state.
Factors driving the scatter of COVID-19 there, condition officials said, "include larGE households where staying away from others cottage evil is difficult, community and extended family gatherings, and indoor vocation environments where physical distancing is difficult."
If a county is above the monitoring list because at least three consecutive days, the condition will ask it ought shut bars and indoor dining at restaurants, also during other indoor worry operations, because at least three weeks.
The state's watchlist either now includes Yuba and Sutter counties, which grabbed headlines at can while they began allowing some businesses ought reopen at defiance of the statewide stay-at-home order.
In a video statement Wednesday, Yuba-Sutter Health officer Dr. Phuong Luu said that though the region was "doing noise just two months ago," conditions dine worsened though "unfortunately the community became also lax, also complacent."
"We were overly confident that we crushed COVID-19. We never crushed it," she said. "We virgin flattened the curve. cottage the curve never went fully away and now is roaring backward with exponential growth at condition of new cases each day."
The condition has identified workplace transmission and "household clusters relating ought mate and family gatherings" during factors contributing ought the scatter of the sickness at those counties. However, officials said "40% are unknown owing ought cases no able or no voluntary ought equip source of exposure."
"It's repeatedly going ought exist this ball — two steps forward, one step backward — if we visit worsening of the nation consequently that our brittle healthcare system is no decimated and doesn't progress into crisis," Luu said. "And this ball will flourish until we dine a vaccine."
The total watchlist now includes counties from about each separate 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.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that the condition will flourish ought "do more ought overhear and vocation providing technical assistance" because coarse the counties above the watchlist "to invent sure that their needs are met."
"Tulare County, Imperial County, L.A. County [and] Kings County flourish ought exist areas of disproportionate concentrate because our team during it relates ought the contemporary trajectory of the microbe at those communities and contemporary competence ought confront the needs at those counties," he said.
Amid troubling increases at infections and Hospitalizations at the region, Los AnGEles Mayor Eric Garcetti warned few era this week that residents could again exist ordered ought linger home. during a information parliament Friday, he reminded AnGElenos that socializing and session with nation outer their households is cottage no allowed.
“We’re no backward ought a safer-at-home order, cottage we coarse want ought carry out our separate ought minimize the scatter of COVID-19,” he said.
Twenty thousand nation were tested at city and county testing sites above Friday, Garcetti said. ought confront surging demand, city testing competence will multiply by 25% next week. More than 1 million nation dine been tested by the city and county, he said.
Since Memorial Day, Hospitalizations of coronavirus patients dine more than doubled at OranGE, Riverside and Ventura counties, and more than tripled at San Bernardino County. at the identical period, Hospitalizations dine risen by 35% at L.A. County and 28% at San Diego County.
L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Thursday that “nothing can exist off the desk at the pandemic” cottage that she personally hopes “we don’t dine ought progress backward there. I wish that we mould out a method ought receive worry of each other, ought exist aware about what we’re doing.”
Times cane writers Ben Welsh, Hannah Fry, Leila Miller, and Rong-Gong Lin II contributed ought this report.
