Los Angeles County Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer said Monday that in the past 24 hours, 19 new deaths were reported in the COVID-19 region, bringing the total to the cities of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Pasadena has moved from 4,996 to 4,996. began in March.
The new total does not contain any delayed data from the state, which Ferrer says they have not received and have not processed.
However, the latest issues of the provincial coronavirus today have highlighted ongoing trends that Ferrer said at a news conference made her ‘cautiously optimistic’. LA County reported 1,920 new cases for the day, saying it was a fairly accurate count, despite the backlog of data the state has dogged.
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There are now 210,424 total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the region and 1,514 hospitalizations. All continue downward trends in those metrics.
Ferrer’s press included charts showing the total number of deaths and deaths in the province as a percentage of the state’s total in the past month. The region’s cases have dropped to 37% of the state’s total, and less than 50% of the state’s total deaths.
She said cases, positivity figures and hospitalization figures have all been past months. Deaths have been trending since the end of July.
“I know we are now seeing the results of everyone’s hard work, and the sacrifices,” she said.
Ferrer also reported that nearly 2 million have been tested so far in the province, with a positivity rate of 10%, and that more than 210,000 have received isolation orders through the contact tracing program.
In Sacramento, California, Govin Newsom today held a news conference for the first time since the state acknowledged that multiple errors caused a backlog of 250,000-300,000 records in its data reporting system that was primarily used to compress and disseminate coronavirus data. The glitches suggest that the database had been coronavirus daily case numbers for at least two weeks.
On Sunday, State Health Director Dr Sonia Angell resigned, presumably over the data step.
