The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health confirmed Thursday 13 new deaths and 2,767 new cases of COVID-19 countywide, with 29,192 total cases in the Santa Clarita Valley.
Los Angeles County continues to see a rapid rise in COVID-19 transmission countywide with cases doubling over the last 10 days.
Thursday’s test positivity rate is 5.2%; an increase from the rate of 1.2% on June 15 when physical distancing restrictions and capacity limits were lifted across all sectors.
The County’s daily average case rate, with a 7-day lag, is now 12.9 cases per 100,000 people, an increase from last week’s rate of 7.1 cases per 100,000.
There are 645 people with COVID-19 currently hospitalized and 22% of these people are in the ICU. Last week, there were 406 people hospitalized with COVID-19 illness.
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Although new COVID-19 cases in Africa have slowed
following an eight-week surge, this “small step forward”
could be short-lived, the Regional Office of the World
Health Organization (WHO) said on
Thursday.
Cases on the continent fell by 1.7 per cent
this week to nearly 282,000, largely due to a sharp decline
in South Africa, home to the bulk of reported
infections.
However, removing the country from the
data would show an 18 per cent increase, or more than
182,000 cases: what the UN agency called a uniquely steep
and unbroken nine-week surge.
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This is a 20-fold increase in a month, with 124 new COVID-19 cases reported on June 21.
Wednesday’s test positivity rate is 5.2%; the rate was 0.7% a month ago.
The number of people hospitalized for COVID-19 illness continues to increase each day. There are 585 people with COVID-19 currently hospitalized and 23% of these people are in the ICU. On June 21, there were 213 people hospitalized with COVID-19 illness.
Of the seven new deaths reported today, two people that passed away were between the ages of 65 and 79, three people who passed were between the ages of 50 and 64, and one person who passed was between the ages of 30 and 49. One death was reported by the City of Long Beach.
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their GDP forecast for 2021 if they had the same vaccination rate as high-income
countries. Global economic recovery at risk if vaccines are not equitably
manufactured, scaled up and distributed.
COVID-19 vaccine inequity will have a lasting and profound impact on socio-economic recovery in low- and lower-middle income countries without urgent action to boost supply and assure equitable access for every country, including through dose sharing, according to new data released today by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the University of Oxford.
An acceleration in scaling up manufacturing and sharing enough vaccine doses with low-income countries could have added $38 billion to their GDP forecast for 2021 if they had similar vaccination rates as high income countries. At a time when richer countries have paid trillions in stimulus to prop up flagging economies, now is the moment to ensure vaccine doses ar