Orange County reported 528 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday and two additional deaths on Saturday, bringing the county’s total to 64 cases, 86 cases and 1,55 cases. Has come up against the death of.
With 8,888 cases reported on Friday – the latest increase in cases, it certainly confirms that the county will hit the most restrictive purple level of the state’s economic-re-emerging roadmap next week, officials said.
“It’s not a record, but it keeps a bow on it – we’ll probably be purple for two weeks in a row,” OC CEO Frank Kim said Friday.
The number of county residents hospitalized with the virus on Friday dropped from 244 to 235, with 90 people in intensive care, according to the Orange County Health Care Agency.
Both of Saturday’s casualties were residents of skilled-nursing homes.
The three-day average of hospitalized patients changed from 17.3% to 8.5%. The county has 30% of its intensive care unit beds and 65% of its ventilators available.
According to OCHCA figures, 1,242,434 KVWID-19 tests have been performed since the onset of the epidemic, including 12,871 on Saturday. 56,154 documentation recovered.
The county’s positivity rate, reported every Tuesday, has actually dropped from 3.6% this week to 3.3%, and the daily case rate per 100,000 population has dropped from 6 to 5.6.
The county’s health equity quartile positivity rate, which measures the county’s response to virus hot spots, fell from 5.7% to 5.5%. The county must reach at least 5.2% in that metric to upgrade from red tire to orange level.
Next week, the county case rate per 100,000 could reach about 8, which is higher than the 4 to 7 rate in red tires, Kim said.
Andrew Doe, vice chairman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, said the county will announce plans next week to provide residents with a coronavirus testing home kit to prevent COVID-19 recruitment.
The county has acquired 500,000 test kits that can detect coronavirus from saliva. Let, he said, they have to make public libraries in the county and in City Hall available.
“We want it to be mobile and at the surrounding level, so people can see the test as part of their holiday safe practice,” he said. “Before you see your grandparents, two or three days before you test, and after the family is together, you wait two or three days and test again. That’s the way you know when to go out or get out – Together you are safe and the people you are with are safe. “
Experts recommend a two to three day buffer because it will take a long time before the test is infected.
“We haven’t worked through the protocol yet, but by next week we will have a program that will include locations that are easily accessible to the public.”
He said the increase in cases was “worrying”. “It’s coming to a very difficult winter season, and with the holiday season and shows that people need to be very vigilant.”
County officials will also soon issue recommendations on best practices for get-tires during the holidays, including eating out and keeping gatherings small, Dr.
“Make it a lunch item where the weather is more tolerable,” he said.
Officials say the daily average of new cases in Orange County will have to drop below the daily average of 1,130, allowing more businesses to reopen and some to increase their capacity. But the county will have to live under 229 new daily cases to stay in the red tire.
Kim said it is growing more clear that the county will move back from the red level to the purple. But there will be no immediate change in terms of approval capacity in stores and other businesses, he said.
“You have to stay in it for two weeks before the sanctions start,” Kim said.
If the county stays purple until November 24, that means the sanctions will take effect three days later. That means the restaurant can still offer indoor dining for Thanksgiving and the shopping mall will have extra capacity for Black Friday shopping.
“The governor has done a good job of meeting that two-week requirement,” Kim said. You get a week for that discussion (with businesses) … hopefully, it won’t bear fruit, but if it does, there will be no surprises. “
Schools will not be closed, but new schools will not reopen until they receive a change from the county.
Businesses and institutions that will be closed for indoor activity will include churches, museums, zoos, aquariums, gyms, rest restaurants, rentals and movie theaters.
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