17 new Santa Clarita coronavirus cases have been confirmed Sunday, with 1,098 additional cases being confirmed within Los Angeles County.

The Santa Clarita Valley cumulative total is now 5,094, and the L.A. County total of cumulative coronavirus cases stands at 231,695 as of Sunday, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH).

A total of 1,247 people are currently hospitalized due to COVID-19 throughout L.A. County, according to Public Health.

Of those hospitalized, 33 percent of patients are in the intensive care unit (ICU) as of Sunday, according to the department.

The state has determined there has been under-reporting of COVID-19 cases due to technical issues with the electronic laboratory system (ELR), but the backlogged results are expected to become available in the coming days according to Governor Gavin Newsom.

Public Health has noted issues with the State electronic lab reporting system for nearly three weeks.

Once the data reporting issues are fixed, the number of cases is expected to increase, according to the department.

Data sources that track other key indicators, including hospitalizations and deaths, are not affected by this reporting issue.

Testing results are available for over 2,182,000 individuals as of Sunday, with a daily positivity rate of 10 percent, according to public health officials.

Eight additional deaths have been reported within the county Sunday, for a total of 5,545 recorded people who have died due to coronavirus in Los Angeles County since March.

As of Sunday, a total of 5,094 cumulative cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the Santa Clarita Valley since testing began in March. These include:

•     2,809 in the City of Santa Clarita*
•     112 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country
•     1,889 in Castaic*
•     25 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus
•     144 in Stevenson Ranch
•     39 in the unincorporated areas of Valencia
•     58 in the unincorporated areas of Val Verde
•     Six in the unincorporated areas of Newhall
•     Six in the unincorporated areas of Bouquet Canyon
•     One in the unincorporated areas of Saugus/Canyon Country
•     Five in unincorporated Sand Canyon

*As of Thursday, Aug. 20, officials had recorded 1,322 cumulative cases among prisoners at the North County Correctional Facility, and 496 at the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center. Those cases are counted in both the City of Santa Clarita and Castaic totals.

Additionally, 58 cumulative cases have been confirmed in nearby Acton as well as 24 in Agua Dulce.

An analysis of available data indicates that as of Wednesday, Aug. 19, reads that approximately 36.3 percent of all cumulative cases in and around the Santa Clarita Valley can be attributed to the inmate population at the North County Correctional Facility and the Pitchess Detention Center.

As of Wednesday, Aug. 19, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital has conducted 6,236 COVID-19 tests. Of those, 748 have tested positive, and 22 tests are still pending with Henry Mayo, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson for the hospital.

There are seven patients in the hospital as of Wednesday, while 226 patients have been discharged since the hospital’s first case was reported in March, according to Moody. This is a decrease of two hospitalized patients since last Wednesday.

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