Nearly 540 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed across the Santa Clarita Valley, officials announced Sunday.
As of Sunday afternoon, a total of 538 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the Santa Clarita Valley. These include:
- 402 in the City of Santa Clarita
- 21 in Castaic
- 18 in Stevenson Ranch
- 26 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country
- Three in the unincorporated areas of Saugus
- 63 in the unincorporated areas of Val Verde
- 5 in the unincorporated areas of Valencia
No cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the unincorporated areas of Newhall as of Sunday afternoon.
Additionally, eight cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in nearby Acton as of Sunday, as well as one in nearby Agua Dulce.
As of Friday, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital has administered 769 tests for COVID-19, 149 of which have returned positive, while 620 have come back negative and 10 remain pending, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson for the hospital.
While 15 COVID-19 patients are currently in the hospital as of Friday, a total of 48 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.
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Public health officials are not releasing death or recovery numbers by city, according to the department.
To date, Public Health has identified 25,662 positive cases of COVID-19 across all areas of LA County, and a total of 1,229 deaths throughout the County as of Sunday.
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.
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.
Residents are encouraged to stay at home, according to the county public health order.
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Ed. Note: One of the numbers was corrected as the count was updated.
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Social distance is not working it’s time to just do like the Asians and get back to life wearing a mask around for awhile. People in construction jobs wear them all day long without crying about it, so stop being a pansy
the numbers are gonna go up because of the free testing now.. I hope Santa Clarita will be fine.. We could do this..The only is I hope Henry Mayo would give the guy a break. His been standing on the same place for a month now…
It’s NOT going to get better with people riding their bikes, going to the beach, walking their dogs… It’s just going to get worse & worse. People just need to stay hope… how simple is that?