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Both the city and county of Sacramento are slated to receive hundreds of millions of dollars each from the federal COVID-19 relief funding after President Joe Biden signed a $1.9 trillion stimulus package.
A low recent COVID-19 case rate and positivity rate mean San Mateo County could advance to the less restrictive orange tier of the state s reopening framework next week.
Case rates have steadily dropped since January following a post holiday surge, with the county seeing an adjusted case rate in the 70s per 100,000 population as recently as the week of Jan. 19. It has since dropped more than 60 points to 11.2 as of Tuesday.
County Health Officer Maggie Park told the county s Board of Supervisors at its meeting Tuesday the county isn t quite ready to move into the less-restrictive red tier of the state s color-coded reopening pan. But it may happen sooner rather later, she said.
Case rates need to drop to 7 or below per 100,000 population to move into the red tier. San Joaquin County has been hovering just above 11 since last week. The county has not qualified to be in the red tier since the middle of November.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health confirmed Tuesday 70 new deaths and 1,337 new cases of COVID-19, with 26,620 total cases in the Santa Clarita Valley.
To date, Public Health identified 1,205,276 positive cases of COVID-19 across all areas of L.A. County and a total of 22,099 deaths.
Note: A correction was made to the number of total Castaic cases, which will be seen in the breakdown further below.
There are 1,119 people with COVID-19 currently hospitalized and 30% of these people are in the ICU. Testing results are available for nearly 5,905,000 individuals with 19% of people testing positive. Today’s daily test positivity rate is 2.2%.