The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced that nearly 99 percent of all skilled nursing facilities in the county had administered the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine as of Monday.

Nearly 39,000 doses have been administered to staff and residents. The remaining facilities are currently vaccinating or are scheduling vaccinations this week. Additionally, for facilities that completed their first doses, Public Health is supporting distribution and administration of their second doses of vaccine, officials said.

All skilled nursing facilities in the County conduct weekly testing of residents and staff. For the week of January 2, more than 70,000 COVID-19 tests were completed among staff and residents, with a positivity rate of just under 4 percent, significantly lower than the positivity rate among the general public, which sits at 15 percent, public health officials said.

An additional 9,927 COVID-19 cases were reported in Los Angeles County on Monday, along with 88 deaths, according to Dr. Barbara Ferrer, director of the  L.A. County Department of Public Health.

“As we honor the legacy of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today, we are reminded that, together, we can make change for the better. We are closer and closer to ending this pandemic, and collective action is what makes the difference in how many more people die,” said Ferrer. “It will take a few more months before there is enough vaccine supply available and enough people vaccinated to provide us with the level of protection needed to end the pandemic.”

The new cases reported today bring the county’s cumulative total to 1,024,190 positive cases of COVID-19 and 13,936 deaths since March 2020, according to the department.

As of Monday, there were 7,328 people hospitalized with COVID-19, 23 percent of which were in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Testing results are available for over 5,250,000 people, with 18 percent of people testing positive.

According to California health officials, the Southern California Region has 0.0% staffed adult ICU capacity remaining as of Monday.

Health officials say that at its current rate, one person in Los Angeles County dies of COVID-19 every eight minutes.

For those who have just returned from a trip outside of Los Angeles County, they must quarantine in place for 10 days and monitor for symptoms for 14 days. Testing is suggested if experiencing COVID-19 symptoms or if one is possibly exposed to someone who was positive.

On Monday, 254 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the Santa Clarita Valley, with 21,304 cumulative cases having been reported in the valley since March of 2020, according to the LADPH. These cases include:

• 15879 in the City of Santa Clarita* (+216)
• 38 in the unincorporated areas of Bouquet Canyon
• 640 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country (+7)
• 3,288 in Castaic* (+14)
• 59 in the unincorporated areas of Newhall
• 109 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus
• 26 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus/Canyon Country
• 853 in Stevenson Ranch (+11)
• 143 in the unincorporated areas of Valencia (+1)
• 244 in the unincorporated areas of Val Verde (+5)
• 13 in unincorporated Sand Canyon
• 12 in San Francisquito/Bouquet Canyon

In nearby Acton, there have been 366 cumulative cases (+8), as well as 188 (+8) cases in Agua Dulce.

*As of Saturday, Jan. 16, public health officials have recorded 1,956 cumulative cases have been reported at the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center, including 1,425 at the North County Correctional Facility. Those cases are distributed between both the City of Santa Clarita and Castaic totals.

As of Monday, Jan. 18 Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital had two coronavirus tests still pending, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson for the hospital.

There were 90 COVID-19 patients in the hospital as of Wednesday, Jan. 13, while 893 patients have been discharged since the hospital’s first case was reported in March 2020, according to Moody.

Seven additional deaths were reported Monday, with a total of 103 coronavirus deaths at the hospital, with at least 153 COVID-19 deaths reported across the Santa Clarita Valley since March 2020.

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Ed. Note: These numbers are subject to change based on further investigation by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

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