Coronavirus cases were still climbing across California when public health officials shut down test sites and stopped reporting for New Year’s Day.
Health officials across the state reported 30,711 new cases of coronavirus and 179 new deaths for a total of 2,356,569 cases and 26,538 deaths. In the Bay, 2,720 new cases were reported and nine new deaths were counted when some provinces were closed for the new year.
A total of 270,241 cases of the coronavirus were reported in the Bay Area and 2,633 people died from the virus. Most coronavirus deaths were reported in San Francisco on Saturday, with health officials reporting 5 new deaths for a total of 194 deaths. City officials have so far reported 23,900 cases of the virus, 379 new cases were reported on Saturday.
In the North Bay – which includes the provinces of Sonoma, Solano, Marin and Napa – officials reported 599 new cases of coronavirus and four new deaths for a total of 54,334 cases and 462 deaths.
Neither Alameda nor San Mateo counties reported new cases or deaths on Saturday. San Mateo County, which has a total of 24,589 cases and 194 deaths, has closed provincial testing centers and offices for New Year’s Day. Alameda Province reported no cases or deaths and is still at 52,322 cases and 656 deaths.
Most infections reported throughout the Bay were in Santa Clara County, where 1,738 new cases were counted for a total of 73,493 cases.
In the province’s seat, about 43 employees at the Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center’s emergency tested positive for COVID-19 between Dec. 27 and Jan. 1, a senior hospital official said. No new deaths were reported and the country remains 747 dead.