Six more people die from coronavirus in Stanislaus County. Cases top 10,000 mark
The coronavirus resulted in six more deaths in Stanislaus County, which also surpassed a milestone in an update Monday evening.
The county has lost 169 residents to the epidemic. According to the county Health Services Agency, four women and two men succumbed to the COVID-19 illness. All but one had underlying health conditions.
Two of them were between 61 and 70 years old; two were between 71 and 90; and the other two were in their 90s.
With 301 new cases, the county surpassed the 10,000 mark in confirmed infections. Starting with the first cases March 11, it took 125 days to reach 5,000 cases and only 29 additional days to get to 10,000. In all, 10,264 county residents have tested positive for COVID-19.
After two days below 200, the county saw its number of hospitalizations of those with confirmed positive cases grow from 197 to 212, with 5% of the adult intensive care unit beds available.
State fixes data glitch
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday the state has worked out a technical problem with a communicable disease reporting system and cleared a backlog of uncounted cases.
Last week, the technical issue resulted in an undercount of new cases and prompted the Stanislaus County Health Services Agency to take down its online coronavirus dashboard. The statistical dashboard, which updates the public on case increases, testing and hospitalizations, remained offline Monday except for hospital data.
Royjindar Singh, spokesman for the county emergency operations center, said the clearing of the state backlog gives the county a large number of cases to verify and process. About 25 county staff members were working through the backlog and the county stats should be up-to-date in a few days, he said.
Singh said he didn’t know what day the dashboard will be activated.
This story was originally published August 10, 2020 at 6:38 PM.
