Riverside County establishes another one-day coronavirus case record; see 17 more deaths – Press Enterprise

Riverside County set a new record for the largest one-day jump in the number of new coronavirus cases, while the number of COVID-19 deaths increased from 17 to 457 in the Tuesday, June 30 update on the site. county public health website.

The county also experienced a new record in COVID-19 hospitalizations, which rose from 365 on Monday, June 29 to 403 on Tuesday, a jump of 10% and 28% more than a week ago. Of those 403, 109 patients are in intensive care, another highly rated.

Riverside County now has 17,296 confirmed cases, 662 more, about 4%, as of Monday. Updates posted during the week on the public health website generally reflect diagnoses and deaths that occurred over a span of days, as the information takes time to reach the public health department.

As of Monday, 96.1% of all county licensed intensive care unit beds were in use, up from 98.7% on Sunday. COVID-19 patients represent approximately 30% of all ICU beds in use, and hospitals can convert regular beds to ICU beds if necessary.

Five of those hospitalized are from Imperial County and 13 in county hospitals are inmates of state prisons. COVID-19 patients represent 10.1% of all hospitalized patients in the county and 172 ventilators were in use, with 506 available as of Monday.

The three state jails in Riverside County have 421 active cases, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Of those three, the Chuckawalla Valley state prison, just outside Blythe, has the majority of cases with 291. A second Chuckawalla inmate died Sunday of what appears to be complications of the virus, state corrections officials reported.