Orange County goes 2 days without deaths from COVID-19

Orange County hasn’t seen a coronavirus death in two days, holding the death toll steady at 88, the county Health Care Agency said Tuesday.

The agency reported 75 new cases Tuesday from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, and 115 additional tests over Monday. This brings Orange County to 4,500 cumulative known infections and 83,046 total tests given. Daily updates are preliminary and subject to change as the county receives new information.

Cases in skilled nursing facilities continued to be an outsize proportion of cases and fatalities, with 513 coronavirus cases and 23 deaths to date being among nursing home residents. That puts 11% of cases and 26% of deaths in nursing homes.

Reported hospitalizations were at 229, with 86 in intensive care. Tuesday’s figures came from 24 out of 25 hospitals eligible to report coronavirus cases.

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The agency last announced a death on Sunday. It hasn’t reported back-to-back days without deaths in more than a month — the last time Orange County went two days without a known COVID-19 death was April 13-14, according to county data. It has not held a longer fatality-free streak since the first death attributed to the novel coronavirus in late March.

The number of reported tests came with another asterisk Tuesday, as the county noted that a state reporting system issue has resulted in an underreporting of tests reported for the day and of cumulative tests. Once the issue has been resolved, the data will be updated, the county said.

Here are the latest case counts for select cities, with numbers per 10,000 residents:

• Santa Ana: 757 (22.4 cases per 10,000 residents)
• Anaheim: 707 (19.7 cases per 10,000 residents)
• Huntington Beach: 295 (14.5 cases per 10,000 residents)
• Irvine: 156 (5.6 cases per 10,000 residents)
• Newport Beach: 133 (15.3 cases per 10,000 residents)
• Costa Mesa: 66 (5.7 cases per 10,000 residents)
• Fountain Valley: 50 (8.8 cases per 10,000 residents)
• Laguna Beach: 44 (18.8 cases per 10,000 residents)

Updated figures are posted daily at occovid19.ochealthinfo.com/coronavirus-in-oc.

For information on getting tested at one of the nearly two dozen public clinics around the county, visit occovid19.ochealthinfo.com/covid-19-testing-and-screening.

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