By Brooke Holland, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @BT_Holland February 28, 2021 | 7:00 p.m. Santa Barbara County public health officials reported 70 new COVID-19 cases Sunday, bringing the region’s cumulative case count to 32,017. The county’s coronavirus-related death toll remained at 411, with 17 of those announced in the past seven days. Santa Barbara County-area hospitals were treating 70 COVID-19 patients Sunday, a decline from 74 the previous day. Of those, 18 people were in intensive-care units as of Sunday, a number that has remained unchanged in the county over the last three days. The Public Health Department on Sunday reported the lowest daily number of countywide COVID-19 hospitalizations since December. The last day the county’s daily number was that low was Dec. 11, when 64 COVID-19 patients were hospitalized.