On the day Kern County reported its highest-ever number of new coronavirus cases, the Board of Supervisors extended several measures designed to manage a protracted surge of COVID-19 illnesses.
Kern County finds itself once again as a coronavirus hotspot. Public Health Services Director Matt Constantine said during a supervisors meeting on Tuesday that new cases have been identified throughout many of Kernâs skilled nursing facilities and prisons, both of which are vulnerable to rapid spread of the virus.
Of the 2,082 cases reported on Tuesday, around 800 were from prisons or the countyâs 19 nursing homes.
However, Kern County is performing poorly across all coronavirus metrics, with significantly higher rates of spread than were being reported just a few weeks ago.