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At least 240 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed within the Santa Clarita Valley as of Sunday afternoon, officials said.
As of Sunday afternoon, there are 201 confirmed cases in the city of Santa Clarita, 10 in Castaic, 13 in Stevenson Ranch, 15 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
Additionally, five cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in nearby Acton as of Sunday.
The numbers for the unincorporated portions of Valencia, Saugus, as well as nearby Agua Dulce, have been “suppressed,” meaning there are between one and four confirmed cases for each community, according to public health officials.
This is done to protect patient privacy. Once these locations have five or more confirmed cases, the numbers are expected to be included, according to a public health spokesperson.
No cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the unincorporated areas of Newhall as of Sunday afternoon.
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.
Henry Mayo has administered 516 tests, and of those 107 have been positive, while 411 were negative and one remains pending, according to spokesman Patrick Moody.
While 33 COVID-19 patients are currently in the hospital, a total of 21 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.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has confirmed 24 new deaths and 334 new cases of COVID-19 Sunday. The total number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 almost doubled this past week, according to county officials.
The total number of cases in L.A. Country is now 12,341, with at least 600 deaths reported as of Sunday afternoon..
Other health centers in the Santa Clarita Valley are also conducting coronavirus tests, according to the L.A. County Department of Public Health.
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. For information on how to get tested, click here.
Residents are encouraged to stay at home, according to the county public health order.
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Are these stats only from people being tested at Henry Mayo? My tenant is waiting for results but I don’t know where he got tested.
mask guy here with a reminder to put those masks on out there. I see city workers like caltrans and public works standing around talking with no masks on. Business like that are having a spreading of infected among employees. Yes it’s important yes just about any cloth covering your mouth and nose can block virus particles from being inhaled and exhaled. home made masks can be easily washed and dust masks like the n95 mask can easily be sterilized by putting it on your dashboard of your car in the hot sun for a few hours,the combo of heat and uv will kill the virus you can stick mail up there also to sterilize it. CDC gave us a misleading recommendation on masks from the beginning which possibly let to this out of control outbreak but better late than never I suppose. The quicker we can get this thing to stop spreading the quicker we can get back to a semi normal life.
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CDC gave us a misleading recommendation along with many, many others, including our politicians, our media which I might add continues to this day. As far as getting back to a semi normal life, I’m expecting to get back to a NORMAL life.
Agreed
I’m a little confused signal says 245 you say 240. Which is it.
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201 confirmed cases in Santa Clarita. We have a population of over 213,000. Time to allow people to responsibly get back to work! Many people and businesses have or are going to lose everything if this continues. Most people / business have enough intelligence to implement social distancing and other protocols to get most of our workforce up and running.
Everyone should be tested. I personally do not want to exposed and come home and expose my family. My spouse is a health care worker and we are worried.
If your spouse is a healthcare worker than you are already exposed. Lets stop this nonsense.
Hey everyone, be happy & write happy thoughts because the author (Jade Aubuchon) is notorious for deleting peoples blogs & comments if they aren’t to her standards. It’s called Freedom of Speech, Ms. journalist.
People commute outside of this valley, and into this valley. So how do we manage the exposure even if people who are careful and seemingly healthy go back to work?