With the Easter weekend ahead, the County Health and Human Services Agency wants to remind San Diegans to celebrate the holiday safely. Although the COVID-19 case numbers remain well below the December and January highs, it’s too early to keep your hats off and attend meetings without certain precautions.
San Diego will meet the current guidelines of the California Department of Public Health and keep the meetings small and short. Meetings should not include more than three total households.
Participants must wear a face mask when not eating and must adhere to social distance indications. While indoor gatherings are allowed, outdoor gatherings are recommended.
According to new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, those who are fully vaccinated can begin to relax restrictions and attend meetings with other fully vaccinated people.
“While new CDC guidelines state that it is safe for people who have been fully vaccinated to congregate indoors or outdoors without a face mask, we know that at present only about one in five San Diegans age 16 and older fully immunized, “said Wilma J. Wooten, MD, MPH, provincial health officer. “I encourage everyone to follow best practices for their situation to celebrate this holiday safely and keep us on track to return to all the activities we enjoy.”
Easter testing and vaccinations
Several provincial test and vaccination sites will be closed for the Easter holidays on Sunday. The following sites will remain open, with modified hours:
- The no-appointment test sites at the San Marcos and Tubman Chavez Community Center in Cal will be open with shortened hours from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
- The vaccination sites at the North Coastal Live Well Center, Lemon Grove Community Center and South Region Public Health Center will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
- The Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center and YMCA Vaccine Web site Borderview will be closed at Easter.
Vaccination claim:
- Nearly 1.89 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine were delivered in the region and nearly 1.76 million were recorded as administered. This number includes residents of the state as well as those who work in San Diego County.
- Of those vaccinated so far, more than 586,000 residents of the province, or 21.8% of San Diegans 16 and older, have been fully vaccinated.
- Overall, more than 975,000 residents in the province received at least one uptake of the two-dose vaccine. This is 36.3% of those who are eligible.
- Those who receive the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine are added to the total of the fully vaccinated San Diegans.
- The difference between doses delivered and those used in a vaccination represents approximately what is expected to be administered in the next seven days and doses yet to be recorded in the record system.
- More information on the distribution of vaccines can be found on the province’s vaccination panel. Visit for information on currently eligible groups and vaccination opportunities www.vaccinationsuperstation.com.
State statistics:
- San Diego County’s calculated, adjusted case rate is currently 4.9 cases per 100,000 residents. The county is in the Red Tier.
- Currently, the test positivity percentage is 2.1%, which places the county in level 3 or the orange level.
- The county’s measure of health equity, which looks at the positive testing for areas with the lowest healthy conditions, is 2.7% and is also in the Orange Tier or Tier 3.
- While two of the three criteria qualify the province for the Orange Tier or Tier 3, the provinces allocate provinces to the more restrictive level.
- The California Department of Public Health reviews provinces weekly. The next report is scheduled for Tuesday, April 6th.
Community Institutions:
- Two new community outbreaks were confirmed on April 1, one in a restaurant / bar area and one in a retail area.
- In the past seven days (March 26 to April 1), ten community outbreaks have been confirmed.
- The number of community outbreaks remains within seven days above the trigger of seven or more.
- An outbreak in a community over the past 14 days is defined as three or more COVID-19 cases in an area and in people from different households.
Test:
- 18,435 tests were reported to the province on April 1, and the percentage of new positive cases was 3%.
- The current average percentage of positive cases of 14 days is 2.3%. The target is less than 8.0%.
- The daily average of 7 days is 12,500 tests.
Cases, hospitalizations and recordings of ICUs:
- 496 COVID-19 cases were reported to the County on March 31st. The total of the region is now 271,035.
- 14,855 or 5.5% of all cases required hospitalization.
- 1 651 or 0.6% of all cases and 11.1% of the hospital cases had to be admitted to an intensive care unit.
Deaths:
- 13 new COVID-19 deaths were reported on April 1st. The total of the region is 3,568.
- Four women and nine men died between January 11 and April 1.
- Of the people who died, three were 80 years old or older, seven were in their 70s, two were in their 60s and one was in their 50s.
- All had underlying medical conditions.
More information:
The more detailed summaries of the information are on the County’s coronavirus-sd.com website is updated daily around 5pm.