Riverside County reviews 473 new COVID-19 instances, and 19 extra deaths Wednesday
Riverside County well being officers reported 473 confirmed COVID-19 instances Wednesday, and the county’s dying toll elevated with 19 new deaths reported since Tuesday.
The county has now confirmed 287,063 instances because the first case was reported inside its borders, based on its COVID-19 dashboard. As of Wednesday, Riverside County’s virus-related dying toll had elevated to three,577.
Earlier this month, well being officers confirmed the primary native case of the COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 first found within the United Kingdom. Authorities haven’t stated the place within the county the case occurred.
B.1.1.7 is taken into account extra contagious, however not essentially extra lethal than the authentic pressure of COVID-19.
“It was inevitable we’d see this pressure in Riverside County, and in our massive inhabitants we are going to most likely see others,” county Public Well being Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser stated. “However it would not change the necessity for individuals to take precautions with facial coverings, social distancing, and good hygiene. It works for different issues and it really works for this, too.”
Dwelling to about 2.5 million individuals, Riverside County is California’s fourth most-populous county. It has recorded the second-highest variety of COVID-19 instances within the state, and solely trails Los Angeles County, which has reported greater than 1.1 million instances.
Riverside County is presently within the strictest degree — the purple tier — of the state’s four-tiered, color-coded reopening plan. It’s reporting an adjusted case charge of 28.Eight new COVID-19 instances per 100,000 residents and a positivity charge of 11%, in accordance to essentially the most lately out there state information.
To maneuver to the following degree, the purple tier, the county must doc fewer than seven new COVID-19 instances per 100,000 residents on a rolling seven-day common, and its positivity testing charge have to be lower than 8% in the identical interval, for a complete of two weeks.
Riverside County: By the numbers
Energetic instances: The variety of identified, energetic instances countywide as of Wednesday was 28,086. The energetic depend is derived subtracting deaths and recoveries from the present case complete, based on the county’s govt workplace.
Recoveries: In keeping with the county, 255,400 individuals have recovered as of Wednesday, which is about 88.9% of the general instances that had been confirmed inside the area.
Hospitalizations: Coronavirus hospitalizations continued to lower Wednesday with 553 COVID-19 sufferers reported in Riverside County hospitals, based on county public well being officers. That’s 14 fewer sufferers than on Tuesday. Of these, 177 are being cared for in intensive care items — one lower than the county’s earlier report on Tuesday.
Coachella Valley: Circumstances to this point
Well being officers on Wednesday reported 63 new instances, 1 extra virus-related deaths, and 443 new recoveries within the Coachella Valley. Listed here are town and neighborhood breakdowns, with the numbers in parentheses exhibiting will increase since Tuesday:
- Cathedral Metropolis: 6,830 instances (+9), 97 deaths (+1), and 6,106 recoveries
- Coachella: 7,731 instances (+2), 78 deaths, and seven,057 recoveries
- Desert Sizzling Springs: 3,999 instances (+7), 58 deaths, and three,542 recoveries
- Indian Wells: 188 instances, 6 deaths, and 170 recoveries
- Indio: 11,921 instances (+16), 184 deaths, and 10,685 recoveries
- La Quinta: 3,258 instances (+10), 53 deaths, and a couple of,895 recoveries
- Palm Desert: 3,781 instances (+6), 98 deaths, and three,323 recoveries
- Palm Springs: 3,559 instances (+6), 105 deaths, and three,124 recoveries
- Rancho Mirage: 1,056 instances (+4), 37 deaths, and 886 recoveries
- Unincorporated communities: Bermuda Dunes: 613 instances (+1), 7 deaths (+1), and 547 recoveries; Desert Edge: 337 (-1) instances, 12 deaths, and 280 recoveries; Desert Palms: 244 instances (+1), 19 deaths (+1), and 201 recoveries; Garnet: 861 instances, 18 deaths, and 768 recoveries; Mecca: 1,113 instances, 17 deaths, and 1006 recoveries; North Shore: 344 instances, 2 deaths, and 317 recoveries; Oasis: 859 instances (+2), 6 deaths, and 793 recoveries; Sky Valley: 211 instances (-1), 4 deaths, and 176 recoveries; Thermal: 465 instances (+4), 5 deaths, and 427 recoveries; Thousand Palms: 1,010 instances (+1), 2 deaths, and 884 recoveries; Vista Santa Rosa: 296 instances, 2 deaths, and 270 recoveries
- Vaccines: As of Wednesday, Riverside County had administered 354,790 of the 320,525 COVID-19 vaccine doses it has obtained. The county has in flip allotted 174,975 doses to neighborhood suppliers and 145,550 doses to its personal public well being clinics.
- California: 3,416,147 (+4,090), and 47,507 deaths (+400)
Estefania Moreira is an intern reporter at The Desert Solar. You may attain her electronic mail at EMoreira@palmspri.gannett.co
