Almost 80 additional coronavirus cases have been reported in the Santa Clarita Valley, with 1,202 new cases reported across Los Angeles County Tuesday afternoon. 

The total number of cases confirmed in the Santa Clarita Valley now stands at 1,656, while the L.A. County total of coronavirus cases now stands at 57,118 as of Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer.

Ferrer noted case numbers are usually higher midweek due to a testing backlog from over the weekend. 

Over 633,000 coronavirus tests have been conducted across Los Angeles County, with about eight percent testing positive for the virus, according to Ferrer. 

6,638 people who tested positive for COVID-19 have been hospitalized at some point during their illness, accounting for roughly 27 percent of all positive cases within Los Angeles County.

Of those, 1,389 are currently hospitalized, according to public health officials.

60 new deaths were reported Tuesday, bringing the total of COVID-19-related deaths to 2,443 in Los Angeles County, according to Ferrer.

A majority of all deaths in the county had underlying health conditions, according to Ferrer, further encouraging those with medical issues to stay home, if possible.

As of Tuesday afternoon, a total of 1,656 cumulative cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the Santa Clarita Valley since testing began in March. These include:

• 785 in the City of Santa Clarita*
• 40 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country
• 755 in Castaic*
• Four in the unincorporated areas of Saugus
• 35 in Stevenson Ranch
• Nine in the unincorporated areas of Valencia
• 27 in the unincorporated areas of Val Verde
• One in the unincorporated areas of Newhall

*As of Monday, June 1, officials had recorded 859 cumulative cases among prisoners at the North County Correctional Facility, and 60 at the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center. Those cases are counted in both the Santa Clarita and Castaic totals. 

Additionally, nine cases have been confirmed in nearby Agua Dulce, as well as 11 in Action.

Officials with Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital reported that two additional COVID-19 deaths Wednesday have been confirmed at the hospital, while 77 total patients have recovered and been released since the pandemic began earlier this year.

Hospital officials could not release any information on the deceased patients due to privacy laws, including things such as age or health history.

The two additional deaths bring the total number of deaths in the Santa Clarita Valley to at least 20, according to officials.

Public health officials are not releasing 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.

The site is temporarily closed due to the Los Angeles County curfew.

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