Coronavirus update, Oct. 7: Stanislaus County records just 8 new cases
Latest facts on COVID-19 testing in Modesto area
Stanislaus County had the fewest new cases in four months Tuesday, while also moving toward a relaxing of COVID-19 rules.
A mere eight positive tests were reported, the fewest since the six on June 1, the county Health Services Agency said. It also announced three more deaths, for a total of 377.
Stanislaus now has 16,767 positive tests, 91,100 negative tests and 16,206 people who are presumed recovered.
Tuesday’s positive rate of 1.73% was the lowest since the 1.21% on June 1. The rolling seven-day average was 7.39%, down from 8.07% the day before. The 14-day average was 5.6%, down from 6.34%. The positive rate since data collection began in March was 15.5%.
Tuesday also brought the weekly update from the state on whether the county was meeting the standards for easing some of the limits on business, schools and other activities.
Stanislaus County has finally met both criteria for leaving the most restrictive tier of California coronavirus reopening program. But it will have to maintain the numbers for another week to move from the purple to red tier. Purple is the most restrictive of the four tiers.
Meanwhile, hospital capacity improved. The 35 confirmed COVID-19 cases in local hospital beds Tuesday were down from 43 on Monday. There were nine available intensive-care beds for adults, down from 12 the day before.
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Of those who tested positive:
- 54% are female
- 46% male
- 7% are 14 years or younger
- 16% are ages 15 to 24
- 21% are 25 to 34,
- 18% are 35 to 44,
- 15% are 45 to 54
- 12% are 55 to 64
- 6% are 65 to 74
- 3% are 75 to 84,
- 2% are 85 or older.
- Though they make up 47 percent of the population, Latinos represented 64 percent of the positive cases.
Geographically:
- Modesto has 6,225 positive cases
- Turlock has 2,245
- Ceres has 2,090
- Riverbank has 844
- Patterson has 819
- Oakdale has 388
- Newman has 340
- Waterford has 257
- Hughson has 153
- Supervisorial District 5 has 1,057
- District 3 has 947
- District 2 has 742
- District 1 has 361
- District 4 has 116
In other nearby counties:
- San Joaquin County has 472 COVID-19-related deaths among 20,731 cases.
- Merced County has 149 deaths among 9,090 cases.
- Tuolumne County has 233 cases and four deaths.
- Mariposa County has 77 cases and two deaths.
As of Tuesday evening, there were 838,803 confirmed cases in California and 16,266 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were 7,502,004 U.S. cases and 210,918 deaths.
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This story was originally published October 7, 2020 at 6:34 AM.
