Coronavirus update, July 29: Stanislaus deaths at 98. Waterford shuts two busy parks
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Stanislaus County reported Tuesday that three more residents have died from the virus, raising the total to 98. Fifty-four of the deaths have been announced in July.
No information was been released about the age, gender or medical state of the victims before their deaths.
As of Tuesday, 8,288 residents have tested positive for COVID-19, an increase of 60 from Monday, according to the county Health Services Agency.
Another 49,929 people have tested negative, and 7,054 are presumed recovered.
Tuesday’s positivity rate of 5.08% was far below the 29.06% on Monday, and the lowest rate since a 4.98 on June 29. The rolling 14-day average rate of infection stood at 22.75% on Tuesday, down from 23.65% the day before. The rolling seven-day average was at 22.99%, compared with 27.26% on Monday.
There are 195 confirmed patients in the five county hospitals, down sharply from 211 on Monday. Nearly 98 percent of the adult intensive care unit beds were being used Tuesday.
Of those who tested positive, 55% are female, 45% male. Fourteen percent are 20 or younger, 20% are 21 to 30, 19% are 31 to 40, 17% are 41 to 50, 14% are 51 to 60, 7% are 61 to 70, 4% are 71 to 80, 4% are 81 to 90, and 2% are older than 90.
Though they make up 47 percent of the population, Latinos represented 60 percent of the positive cases.
Modesto has 2,933 positive cases, 1,070 are in Ceres, 1,037 are in Turlock, 397 are in Patterson, 360 are in Riverbank, 170 are in Oakdale, 147 are in Waterford, 123 are in Newman and 88 are in Hughson. Of the cases in unincorporated areas, 534 are in supervisorial District 5, 505 are in District 3, which includes Salida, 334 are in District 2, 155 are in District 1, and 44 are in District 4.
- San Joaquin County has 133 COVID-19-related deaths among 10,923 cases.
- Merced County has 29 deaths among 3,763 cases.
- Tuolumne County has 131 cases and two deaths.
- Mariposa County has 51 positive cases and two deaths.
As of Tuesday evening, there were 470,762 confirmed cases in California and 8,679 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were 4,352,304 U.S. cases and 149,260 deaths.
Here is the state tracker.
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This story was originally published July 29, 2020 at 4:52 AM.
