SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Yolo, Napa, and San Benito counties have been added to the state’s watch list as coronavirus cases continue to rise throughout California.
The list of counties monitored by the state now stands at 26 counties, which already included Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano, Colusa and Stanislaus counties. As Gov. Gavin Newsom said California is looking to dial back the “dimmer switch” for reopening sectors of the economy.
Bars in these counties will have to close, and business operations will be restricted for all restaurants, wineries, movie theaters, cardrooms and other indoor family entertainment.
California's overall coronavirus positivity rate (7.1%), hospitalizations (44%), and ICU admittance (34%) have all increased, according to the latest figures. The state also broke its single-day record for most coronavirus cases with 11,695, although Newsom pointed out that roughly 2,000 of those cases are backlog in Los Angeles County.
Closer look at Yolo County
On July 1, Yolo County tried to mitigate cases by voluntarily restricting restaurants, bars, and other indoor businesses the rise in
As of Wednesday, Yolo County has reported 723 coronavirus cases and 26 deaths related to the virus. The county has had roughly 117 coronavirus cases per 100,000 residents in the past 14 days which is one of the reasons it landed on the state's watch list.
Yolo County also currently does not have any ICU beds available. Not all the ICU beds are being used by the two coronavirus patients in the ICU, but the California Department of Health would like to see ICU availability above 20% nonetheless.
Other counties edging closer the state's list
Across several small counties in the Sacramento region, the number of cases and hospitalizations is continuing to rise.
Placer County Public Health Director Dr. Aimee Sisson said the coronavirus continues to plague the Placer County community. Placer County has seen a dramatic rise in new cases over the last 14 days.
“So, I would anticipate in the next day or two that we would be on the state’s monitoring list,” Sisson told ABC10 yesterday. “The threshold that the state has for being on the monitoring list is 100 per 100,000 and using our local real-time data, today we crossed that threshold at 101.4.”
Counties that ABC10 is currently monitoring for each county's 14-day case increase according to California Department of Public Health as of July 7:
- Placer - 405
- Sutter - 161
- Yuba - 103
- El Dorado - 102
- Nevada - 69
- Tuolumne - 31
- Amador - 20
- Calaveras - 32
California dashboard | Desktop version
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