San Diego County Sunday reported 1,066 new COVID-19 infections, after a record was set the day before with 1,859 cases reported.
The total number of cases is now more than 80,000 since the start of the pandemic, with 80,084. There was one new death reported over the weekend bringing to the total to nearly, 1,000 with 997 people having died due to the disease. The number of hospitalizations in the county has grown to more than 670. Sunday marked the 19th consecutive day that more than 600 new cases were reported.
County public health officials announced on Saturday an outbreak of COVID-19 cases at the Awaken Church in Kearny Mesa, calling for anyone who attended services there between Nov. 15 and Nov. 22 to quarantine for 14 days from attendance. The San Diego Union Tribune reported that the church held indoor services there on Sunday attended by more than 100 people. County officials said in a statement that they were taking the unusual step of publicly identifying the site of a COVID-19 outbreak because county contact tracers had been unable to reach everyone who might have been exposed.
The county remains in the purple tier which means only outdoor dining at restaurants and no indoor activities at gyms, museums, theaters or places of worship. It also limits the number of customers to 25 percent of capacity..
The situation at hospitals in San Diego County is growing worse.each day with the number of COVID-19 patients in beds headed toward over 700. According to the San Diego Union Tribune, Sharp Healthcare, the region’s largest hospital system, contained 282 COVID-19 patients Monday, double the previous record of 141 set on May 11 and more than five times higher than the collective census of 53 in Sharp beds on Oct. 25.
California Stay at Home Order May be Close
California Governor Gavin Newsom said Monday, that if the trend of rising cases, positive testing rates and hospitalization continues, he will reimpose a stay-at-home order similar to the one he issued in March, which was the first in the nation at the time.
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SEE SAN DIEGO COUNTY DAILY CORONAVIRUS REPORT.
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