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By Thadeus Greenson@ThadeusGreenson
on Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 4:30 PM
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Humboldt County Public Health Microbiologist Annayal Yikum prepares patient samples for the COVID-19 testing process.
Humboldt County Public Health reported today that it has confirmed 74 new COVID-19 cases and three new hospitalizations since Friday.
Today's cases — which follow 169 confirmed last week and 84 confirmed the week before — come after laboratories processed 764 samples with a test-positivity rate of 9.7 percent.
According to a state database, 15 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 locally, including three under intensive care.
In a press release today, public health reported that of the 193 county residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 since July 19, 24 were children under the age of 10 and over the nine hospitalizations over the past week, one was in their 30s, one in their 40s, three in their 50s, and four over the age of 60.