28 new Santa Clarita coronavirus cases have been confirmed Thursday, with an additional 2,628 cases being confirmed within Los Angeles County.

The Santa Clarita Valley cumulative total is now 4,270, and the L.A. County total of cumulative coronavirus cases stands at 185,872 as of Thursday, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH).

A total of 2,022 people are currently hospitalized due to COVID-19 throughout L.A. County, according to Public Health.

Of those hospitalized, 27 percent of patients are in the intensive care unit (ICU) as of Thursday, according to the department.

Testing results are available for over 1,733,000 individuals as of Thursday, with a daily positivity rate of 10 percent, according to public health officials.

41 additional deaths have been reported within the county Thursday, for a total of 4,552 recorded people who have died due to coronavirus in Los Angeles County since March.

As of Thursday, a total of 4,270 cumulative cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the Santa Clarita Valley since testing began in March, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. These include:

• 2,122 in the City of Santa Clarita*
• 79 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country
• 1,857 in Castaic*
• 13 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus
• 111 in Stevenson Ranch
• 34 in the unincorporated areas of Valencia
• 44 in the unincorporated areas of Val Verde
• Five in the unincorporated areas of Newhall
• One in the unincorporated areas of Bouquet Canyon
• One in the unincorporated areas of Saugus/Canyon Country
• Three in unincorporated Sand Canyon

*As of Wednesday, July 29 officials had recorded 1,321 cumulative cases among prisoners at the North County Correctional Facility, and 495 at the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center. Those cases are counted in both the City of Santa Clarita and Castaic totals by the LADPH.

Additionally, 42 cumulative cases have been confirmed in nearby Acton as well as 19 in Agua Dulce.

An analysis of available data indicates that as of Wednesday, July 29, less than half (approximately 42.8 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.

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

As of Thursday, July 30, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital has conducted 5,317 COVID-19 tests. Of those, 657 have tested positive, and 176 tests are still pending with Henry Mayo, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson for the hospital.

The eighteenth COVID-19 related death was reported by the hospital. There are 25 patients in the hospital as of Thursday, while 180 patients have been discharged since the hospital’s first case was reported in March, according to Moody.

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

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