The toll of COVID-19 in Sonoma County continues to rise, with local public health officials reporting a total of 15 recent virus-related deaths in the first six days of February.
Provincial officials reported five deaths on Monday, two on Tuesday, three on Thursday and five more on Friday. That brings the total number of pandemic deaths to 275.
Officials from the country released some details about the past eight deaths on Friday and Saturday. Most of these COVID-19 deaths occurred between January 30 and February 1.
There is often a large gap between the date of death and the date on which they were reported. One death in which a man between 55 and 64 years old who lived in a capable old age home occurred on 27 December.
Four of the deceased were women aged 75 or older, and two of them lived in capable old age homes, while the others lived at home. One man, 75 years of age or older, lived in a nursing home. The other two men were between 65 and 74 and lived at home.
On Friday night, the province reported 165 new confirmed cases of coronavirus. In the past five days, the province has averaged just under 100 reported cases per day, a significant decrease from the 250 to 300 daily new cases reported during the winter push in December and January.
Experts in public health and infectious diseases say that deaths often leave new cases with as much as the month behind, and the deadly precipitation of a resurgence is often seen even after the resurgence has begun to subside.
“Our business rate continues to decline,” said Dr. Sundari Mase said during a press conference of COVID-19 on Friday. According to Mase, the country’s average daily business per 100,000 inhabitants is now 26.9.
“And that’s down from 34.3 just five days ago, ‘she said, adding that the current rate of action is still much higher than the benchmark needed for the country to move into the next, less restricted phase of the state’s reopening plan. to go.
As the number of cases improves, the number of local COVID-19 hospitalizations also decreases. According to public health data, there were 62 local COVID-19 patients in local hospitals on Friday.
The figure is significantly less than the record of 110 nationwide hospitalizations on January 7th. Of the 62 COVID-19 patients in local hospitals, 17 receive intensive care.
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