An additional COVID-19 death was reported at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital Friday, with over 20 new cases reported throughout the Santa Clarita Valley.

25 additional Santa Clarita Valley coronavirus cases have been reported, as well as 1,281 new cases in Los Angeles County.

The additional cases reported Friday brings the Santa Clarita Valley cumulative total to 5,660 with the Los Angeles County total at 258,561, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

“I appreciate the diligent efforts everyone is making to slow the spread of COVID-19 and am grateful that daily hospitalizations and deaths have continued to decline,” said Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer in a statement Friday. “This decline didn’t happen by chance – this happened because individuals and businesses are doing their part to take those actions that reduce transmission. As we move into another weekend, we can’t let our guard down.”

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

There are currently 739 people hospitalized due to COVID-19, with 31 percent of those patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), according to the department.

Testing results are available for over 2,512,000 individuals as of Friday, with a positivity rate of 10 percent, according to public health officials.

22 additional deaths have been reported within the county Friday, for a total of 6,330 recorded people who have died due to coronavirus in Los Angeles County since March.

As of Friday, a total of 5,660 cumulative cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the Santa Clarita Valley since testing began in March. These include:

• 3,289 in the City of Santa Clarita*
• 125 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country
• 1,934 in Castaic*
• 27 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus
• 157 in Stevenson Ranch
• 42 in the unincorporated areas of Valencia
• 67 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
• Six in unincorporated Sand Canyon

*As of Thursday, Sept. 1, 7officials had recorded 1,335 cumulative cases among prisoners at the North County Correctional Facility, and 498 at the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center. Those cases are distributed between both the City of Santa Clarita and Castaic totals.

Additionally, 66 cumulative cases have been confirmed in nearby Acton as well as 26 in Agua Dulce.

An analysis of available data indicates that as of Thursday, Sept. 17, approximately 32.8 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 Friday, Sept. 18, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital has conducted 7,763 COVID-19 tests. Of those, 843 have tested positive, and 19 tests are still pending with Henry Mayo, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson for the hospital.

On Friday, Henry Mayo reported an additional COVID-19 death, bringing the hospital total to 23.

There are 11 patients in the hospital as of Wednesday, while 246 patients have been discharged since the hospital’s first case was reported in March, according to Moody.

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