Officials announced that 54 new cases of coronavirus had been confirmed in the Santa Clarita Valley as of Wednesday, with a cumulative total of 837 COVID-19 cases confirmed across the Santa Clarita Valley since testing began in March.

As of Wednesday afternoon, a total of 837 cumulative cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the Santa Clarita Valley. These include:

• 529 in the City of Santa Clarita*
• 229 in Castaic*
• 27 in Stevenson Ranch
• 30 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country
• Four in the unincorporated areas of Saugus
• 12 in the unincorporated areas of Val Verde
• Six in the unincorporated areas of Valencia

Included in the Castaic and Santa Clarita numbers are inmates at the Pitchess Detention Center, which were previously listed as Val Verde, according to public health officials.

Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva is alleging a group of inmates at Pitchess are intentionally spreading coronavirus.

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No new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the unincorporated areas of Newhall as of Wednesday afternoon.

Additionally, eight cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in nearby Acton, as well as three in nearby Agua Dulce. These numbers have remained largely stable over the last several weeks, with one additional case in Agua Dulce being identified Monday.

As of Wednesday, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital has administered 1,106 tests for COVID-19, 182 of which have returned positive, while 1,007 have come back negative and 28 remain pending, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson for the hospital.

While 12 COVID-19 patients are currently in the hospital as of Wednesday, a total of 62 have recovered and been discharged, Moody added.

The patients are being treated on a designated floor of the newly-built patient tower, with each patient receiving the correct level of care without using beds in the Intensive Care Unit, according to the hospital.

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An additional 1,264 COVID-19 cases were reported across Los Angeles County Wednesday. The County cumulative total of COVID-19 cases now stands at 34,428 according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer.

Public health officials are not releasing death or recovery numbers by city, according to the department.

Due to testing shortages, these numbers are only the confirmed cases, which officials say could be much lower than the actual number of coronavirus cases in Santa Clarita.

A Santa Clarita testing center opened on April 8 at the College of the Canyons Valencia campus.

This site is one of several that are up and running around the county, and the first in the Santa Clarita Valley.

Testing is set to run from 7 a.m. to approximately 5 p.m., seven days per week, according to the college.

The Santa Clarita coronavirus testing site is expected to continue at least until June, according to County officials.

Residents are encouraged to stay at home, according to the county public health order.

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Ed. Note: The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has included the cases for Pitchess Detention Center and the North County Correctional Facility in the count for both the City of Santa Clarita and Castaic. KHTS is working on getting the exact numbers for those two facilities, and will update the above numbers to reflect that once the information is available.

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