They worry about large gatherings – especially indoors.
COVID-19 has killed 290 people in Fresno County.
More than half of them – 152 – died in August. Coronavirus has overtaken heart disease and cancer as the leading cause of death in Fresno County.
Health official Dr Rais Vora urged people to avoid parties.
Dr. Vohra said, “The most risky thing you can do is you go to someone else’s house and spend time indoors which is not your own because it will guarantee that someone in the gathering will have coronavirus and will be able to give it to others. To get along with people. “
Dr. Vohra noted the spikes in COVID cases after both July 4 and Memorial Day.
To help fight the spread of the virus, community-based organizations are reaching out to people in our most vulnerable neighborhoods to tell them what resources are available. To convey a message to the diverse population of the valley, some said it needed to be translated into different languages.
“My community has been deprived because the information that comes out is not in their language, where they get the information and they have struggled to get that personal safety equipment,” explained Veva Islas, director of Cultiva La Salud.
Fresno County added more than 1,100 COVID cases this week. The county’s positivity rate was 11.9% above the state’s 8% benchmark.
That number needs to come down if Fresno County is to move from the purple or “broad” category to the lower-level red or “significant” category on California’s color-coded coronavirus scheme.
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