Coronavirus update, Aug. 7: Stanislaus adds 6 deaths. Some schools resume remotely
Latest facts on COVID-19 testing in Modesto area
Another six Stanislaus County residents have died from the virus, for a total of 151, the county Health Services Agency announced Thursday.
The six include four men and two women, all with underlying conditions. Two of them were 41 to 60 years old, one was 61 to 70, two were 71 to 80, and one was 81 to 90.
The agency reported that positive tests stood at 9,408 as of Thursday, up 49 from Wednesday. Another 52,827 residents have tested negative, and 8,683 are presumed recovered.
The rolling seven-day (23.78%) and 14-day (24.81) infection rates fell from the day before. Over the previous seven days, the rate was 25.35% and the 14 days before that it was 21.29%.
Further information was not provided. The county’s detailed COVID-19 dashboard remained out of service Thursday due to technical errors in the state system.
The dashboard outage means no data on the overall testing positivity rate since March, the gender and age ranges of positive people, or their place of residence. Hospital capacity also is not available, including the key measure of adult ICU beds.
In other nearby counties:
- San Joaquin County has 192 COVID-19-related deaths among 12,119 cases.
- Merced County has 62 deaths among 4,855 cases.
- Tuolumne County has 147 cases and two deaths.
- Mariposa County has 60 positive cases and two deaths.
As of Thursday evening, there were 541,339 confirmed cases in California and 10,021 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were 4,883,657 U.S. cases and 160,104 deaths.
Here is the state tracker.
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