The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced 2,645 new COVID-19 cases and 51 new deaths on Saturday. The department said it expects to receive a backlog of state lab reports in the coming days.
The latest update sees dips in new cases, deaths and current hospitalizations compared to Friday’s update. Saturday’s count shows about 500 fewer new cases and 10 fewer current hospitalizations from the previous day, 31% of which are in the ICU. Between Friday and Saturday, the daily death toll dropped from 53 to 51.
While the numbers seem to be declining, the latest update comes days after the county struck more than 200,000 confirmed coronavirus cases on Thursday, with Los Angeles hitting a total of 206,761 cases as of today. The province has close to 5,000 total deaths, with a current total of 4,967.
On Friday, California officially announced that the Golden State has seen more than 10,000 deaths from the coronavirus. Although the problems with the state’s COVID-19 reporting process have led to undercounts in daily data on new cases, the technical error does not affect the overall counts for hospitalizations.
Earlier this week, California broke its one-day record for coronavirus deaths with a report of 200 new deaths on Wednesday.
Read Los Angeles Public Health updates below.
Public Health Reports 51 New Deaths and 2,645 New Positives #COVID-19 cases where delays in reporting remain t … twitter.com/i/web/status/1…–
LA Public Health (@lapublichealth) August 8, 2020
