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By Thadeus Greenson@ThadeusGreenson
on Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 4:28 PM
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Public Health
Humboldt County Public Health Laboratory staff Paula Moon (left) and Alyssa McCloud catalog incoming tests.
Humboldt County has lost a 54th resident — a person in their 30s — to COVID-19, Public Health reported today, while confirming 31 new cases and three new hospitalizations.
This afternoon's report — which came after laboratories processed 208 samples with a test-positivity rate of 14.9 percent — came after Public Health reported this morning that it had confirmed 124 new cases between Friday and Monday, with four new hospitalizations.
Today's tally coupled with that over the weekend makes 155 new cases reported so far this week, after the county reported 217 last week — its highest tally since the post-holiday surge in January.