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County health officials remind people that traditional Halloween celebrations are not advised under state or local health guidelines, and large gatherings are not allowed.
Halloween celebrations – such as parties and, individually, door-to-door tricks અથવા or treating – have a high risk of spreading COVID-19 and are discouraging.
“These activities involve face-to-face conversions with a variety of household people,” said Wilma Wooten, MD, MPH, MPH, the county’s public health officer. “If participants are infected with Covid-19, it will be very difficult to locate and report those who have come out.”
To ensure that children have fun and celebrate safely, Wooten recommends the following safe Halloween activities:
- Parties Contest like online parties / costumes or pumpkin carvings
- Drive-through events and car parades
- Dressing houses and yards with Halloween-themed decorations
- Movie nights with your own home or in a drive-in theater
- Pumpkin patches where people use hand sanitizers and maintain a 6-foot distance from others
“Please be safe and be healthy this Halloween weekend,” Wooten said. “Boo and Kack Kal can be pretty fun, but Kovid certainly isn’t.”
Here’s a list of other Halloween celebration options that aren’t approved or recommended.
State metrics:
- San Diego County’s state-calculated, adjusted case rate is currently 6.5 per 100,000 residents. The limit for Tier 2, Red Tire is 7.0.
- It has a test positivity percentage of 3.5%, by placing it in Tier 3 or Orange Tier.
- The state’s health equity metric looks positive for testing for areas with the least healthy conditions.
- The county’s health equity test positivity percentage is 5.1. This does not move metric counties to more restricted levels but needs to move forward.
- The California Department of Public Health will evaluate the counties on a weekly basis in a report scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. Nov. 201.
Community setup eruption:
- On October 27, 13 new community outbreaks were confirmed.
- In the last seven days (Oct. 21 to Oct. 27), 31 community outbreaks were confirmed.
- The number of community outbreaks is above seven or more triggers in seven days.
- Outbreaks appear to be exacerbated during the last 14 days, with three or more Covid-19 cases being reported in different households.
Testing:
- As of Oct. 27, 11,116 trials were reported in the county, and the percentage of newly laboratory-confirmed cases was 3%.
- The 14-day rolling average percentage of positive cases is 2.7%. The target is less than 8.0%.
- The 7-day, daily average of tests is 11,268.
- People with high risk for Covid-19 and those without it should be investigated. Healthcare and essential workers should also get a test, as well as people who had close contact with a positive case or lived in communities that are being greatly affected.
Case:
- On Oct. 27, 330 new cases have been confirmed among San Diego County residents. The total share of this sector is now 55,540.
- 8,883. Or in all cases .0.0% is required to be hospitalized.
- 905 or 1.6% of all cases and 23.3% of hospitalized cases had to be admitted to the intensive care unit.
Mortality:
- On Oct. 27, four new deaths were reported in the county. The total number of this area is now 881.
- Women. Oct 22 to Oct. Between 26, three women and a man were killed. They range in age from the early 70s to the 80s and 50s.
- All had an underlying medical condition.
More info:
Found more detailed data summaries on County coronavirus-sd.com website Will be updated this evening around 5 p.m.
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