San Luis Obispo County reports that two more county residents who tested positive for COVID-19 died.
Health officials say they were both 80 years old and had underlying health conditions. They both also lived at Vineyard Hills Health Center in Templeton, a skilled nursing facility that has had an outbreak of the virus among both residents and staff.
Vineyard Hills has had a total of three residents and a former resident, all with COVID-19, who have died since the start of the pandemic.
The Department of Public Health says it is working with the facility’s owner, Compass Health, to stop the spread of the infection and prevent a larger outbreak. This reportedly includes the isolation of the sick and ongoing testing.
San Luis Obispo County also reported 45 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing the county’s total to 1,689 confirmed cases as of July 28.
Thirteen people are hospitalized, including four patients who are in the ICU.
Another 404 people are recovering at home and 1,261 people have recovered.
San Luis Obispo County has had a total of eleven deaths attributed to COVID-19.
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Health officials say 476 cases, or about 28% of the county’s total, are the result of the patient’s direct contact with a person who tested positive for the virus; 406 cases are attributed to the spread of the community; and 127 cases are the result of traveling out of the county. Another 680 cases are still under investigation.
Breakdown of cases by location:
- Inmates of the California Men’s Colony – 11
There are 31 additional cases in communities with fewer than five cases, and the Department of Public Health is not identifying those locations. The location of eleven cases is listed as “under investigation”.
For more information on the county’s COVID-19 response, visit readyslo.org.
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