UPDATE: On Sunday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health verified 10 new deaths and 1,789 brand-new cases of verified COVID-19
The reported case numbers today include all of the current lab reports from the state’s electronic laboratory report system. Nevertheless, the numbers do not include stockpile numbers and the state anticipates sending out the stockpile of laboratory reports over the upcoming days.
As it has actually been in the previous couple of weeks, younger citizens of L.A. county continue to make up the majority of positive new cases. Residents between the ages of 30 and 49 years old have the greatest case rate among all age groups in L.A. County, 35%of new cases today.
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Los Angeles County Passes 5,000 COVID-19 Deaths
To date, Public Health has recognized 208,528 favorable cases of COVID-19 across all areas of L.A. County, and a total of 4,977 deaths.
PREVIOUS: The Los Angeles County Department of Public health announced 2,645 brand-new COVID-19 cases and 51 brand-new deaths on Saturday. The department shared that it expects receiving a stockpile of laboratory reports from the state in the coming days.
The latest upgrade sees dips in brand-new cases, deaths and current hospitalizations when compared to Friday’s upgrade. Saturday’s count displayed around 500 less brand-new cases and 10 less existing hospitalizations from the previous day, 31%of which are in the ICU. Between the Friday and Saturday, the daily death count dropped from 53 to 51.
While the numbers seem to decrease, the most recent upgrade comes days after the county struck more than 200,000 validated coronavirus cases on Thursday, as Los Angeles hits a total of 206,761 cases since today. The county nears 5,000 total deaths, with a present total of 4,967
On Friday, California formally reported that the Golden State has actually seen more than 10,000 deaths from the coronavirus The concerns with the state’s COVID-19 reporting process have led to undercounts in daily new cases data, the technical failure did not affect the overall counts for hospitalizations.
Previously in the week, California broke its single-day-record for coronavirus deaths with a report of 200 brand-new deaths on Wednesday.
Check Out Los Angeles Public Health’s Saturday updates listed below.
COVID-19 Daily Update:
August 8, 2020
New Cases: 2,645(206,761 to date)
New Deaths: 51 (4,967 to date)
Existing Hospitalizations: 1,610 pic.twitter.com/GSJuABbb1l— LA Public Health (@lapublichealth) August 8, 2020
Public Health Reports 51 New Deaths and 2,645 New Positive #COVID-19 Cases as Hold-ups in State Reporting Continues t. twitter.com/i/web/status/1 …—
LA Public Health (@lapublichealth) August 08, 2020
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