18 additional Santa Clarita Valley coronavirus cases have been reported Sunday as well as 816 new cases across Los Angeles County, officials said.

The total number of cases in the Santa Clarita Valley is now 5,528 with the Los Angeles County total reaching 253,985, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

Public health officials are reminding residents to minimize nonessential activities.

There are currently 793 people hospitalized due to COVID-19, with 35 percent of those patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), according to the department.

Testing results are available for over 2,448,000 individuals as of Sunday, with a positivity rate of 10 percent, according to public health officials.

As of Sunday, Los Angeles County remains in Tier 1 of the state’s coronavirus criteria, the highest, most restrictive category.

11 additional deaths have been reported within the county Sunday, for a total of 6,208 recorded people who have died due to coronavirus in Los Angeles County since March.

92 percent of those who died due to COVID-19 had an underlying health condition, according to public health officials.

As of Sunday, a total of 5,528 cumulative cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the Santa Clarita Valley since testing began in March. This is an increase of 18 compared to Saturday. These include:

• 3,176 in the City of Santa Clarita*
• 121 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country
• 1,920 in Castaic*
• 27 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus
• 156 in Stevenson Ranch
• 42 in the unincorporated areas of Valencia
• 67 in the unincorporated areas of Val Verde
• 6 in the unincorporated areas of Newhall
• 6 in the unincorporated areas of Bouquet Canyon
• 1 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus/Canyon Country
• 6 in unincorporated Sand Canyon

*As of Saturday, Sept 12, officials had recorded 1327 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, 65 cumulative cases have been confirmed in nearby Acton as well as 25 in Agua Dulce.

An analysis of available data indicates that as of Saturday, Sept. 12, approximately 33.1 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, Sept. 9, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital has conducted 7,309 COVID-19 tests. Of those, 817 have tested positive, and 15 tests are still pending with Henry Mayo, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson for the hospital.

There are 12 patients in the hospital as of Wednesday, while 240 patients have been discharged since the hospital’s first case was reported in March, according to Moody.

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