Health officials in Sonoma County reported Monday that the deaths of six more local residents have been caused by coronavirus complications, bringing the death toll from the epidemic to 142.
The latest deaths of four women and two men – Sept. The highest is recorded in a single day of 22. October 23 has since come. Five of the victims are 65 or older, and two lived in senior care homes, which have been the focus. Of the fatal effects of the virus. One victim was between 50 and 64 and died at a local hospital.
Death represents the county’s constant struggle with the widespread transmission of infectious disease. The state’s public health officials are rebuilding the progress of 58 counties reducing the virus as four-quarters of the state’s community is expected to hold the county again in the state’s bottom-up phase on Wednesday, citing the inability to contain COVID-19.
County health officials also revealed Monday that local evacuations during a glass fire in late September contributed to the spread of the infection.
Preliminary data show that 22 people became infected during the migration. In some cases, individuals became infected after living with friends or relatives with the virus, or people became infected by temporarily hosting them until they returned home, said Catherine P. Pack K, health program manager for the county’s epidemiology team.
Another 27 residents who tested positive for Covid-19 before receiving a fire threat were forced to leave their homes.
“These numbers are probably underestimated, because it’s really hard to pin down a particular situation and say it was the cause of the transmission,” said County Health Sund Fiser Dr. Sund Messe, the county’s health officer. Sundari Mess said. “When we finish contact tracing, we’ll probably have a better idea, but there will be people who have missed out who might have gotten out.”
During the Wal-Walbridge fire in August, public health officials determined that there were 15 cases of coronavirus connected to the fire sites.
Sonama County, meanwhile, has been operating in the highly restricted “purple tire” since the end of August under the guidelines for reopening the only state business and public place in the Nine County Bay area. Sonoma joins eight other counties statewide at the most restricted level.
As of Sunday, the county’s daily virus transmission rate was about 12 new daily cases per 100,000 inhabitants, while the state’s maximum rate of early re-emergence is 7 or fewer new daily cases. The county’s overall share in positive COVID-19 tests was 5%, 8% or more above the state threshold. Last week, when it was measured, the county’s percentage of underprivileged residents was 8. tests%, slightly above the state’s %% threshold.
Also, on Sunday, the county reported 103 new coronavirus infections, a significant increase in daily cases in the previous three days: 40 on Saturday; Friday 45; And Thursday 32.
On October 26, the Sonima County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an aggressive 16 million long-term enhanced epidemic response strategy targeting disadvantaged neighborhoods in which most cases occur overall.
However, Mess said Monday that the effects of a multilateral plan to reach out to the wider community, reach out to the wider community and pay pay 1,200 compensation, would allow low-income residents who have contracted the virus to stay home and separate instead of going to work. To show a reduction in COVID-19 cases and related deaths.
“I think we’re still in a place where we haven’t felt the impact yet (of these steps),” he said.
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