Riverside County reports 8,244 new cases, 36 deaths, & 38 more hospitalizations since Thursday
Case Changes Today
The Coachella Valley reported 1,267 cases. The valley has a total of 26,231.
The county reported nearly 11,000 cases on Tuesday, mostly due to a backlog according to officials
Riverside County was the 11th county in the United States to surpass 100,000 total cases, according to John Hopkins University.
Check out the county map below
(Note Data will continue to update past today)
Stay-at-home Order in place in Southern California Region (Including Riverside County)
The ICU bed availability in the Southern California region remains under 15% (Currently 0.0%), meaning the stay-at-home order remains in effect.
Riverside County reports 8,205 new cases, 42 deaths, & 54 more hospitalizations in past 24 hours
Case Changes Today
Riverside County reported new 8,205 cases since Wednesday, bringing the total to 132,818.
The county reported nearly 11,000 cases on Tuesday, mostly due to a backlog according to officials
Riverside County was the 11th county in the United States to surpass 100,000 total cases, according to John Hopkins University.
Check out the county map below
(Note Data will continue to update past today)
Stay-at-home Order in place in Southern California Region (Including Riverside County)
The ICU bed availability in the Southern California region remains under 15% (Currently 0.0%), meaning the stay-at-home order remains in effect.
Riverside County reaches 1,000 COVID-related hospitalizations
Over the past 24 hours, coronavirus hospitalizations in Riverside County increased by 28 patients, officially putting the county over 1,000 patients for the very first time.
Riverside County is now the fifth county in the state to pass 1,000 patients.
COVID patients admitted into the ICU continued to increase, today it was by 17 patients. With the county s ICU bed availability percentage at 0%, hospitals continue to move into their surge plans, converting rooms to make space for more patients.
County officials say the first batch of the vaccine is expected to arrive on
“Its a good news situation at a time when there is plenty of not so great news when it comes to the numbers and impact of the pandemic on our community, said Jose Arballo Jr, public information specialist for Riverside County Health.
Riverside County reports record single-day COVID deaths as ICUs continue to fill up
Over the past 24 hours, Riverside County reported 42 COVID-related deaths. It s the highest amount of deaths reported by the county over a day span. The previous record was on August 2, when the county reported 31 deaths, county public health director Kim Saruwatari told the Board of Supervisors Tuesday morning.
Saruwatari added that 37 of the 42 deaths reported today occurred between Dec. 1 and Dec. 10.
Meanwhile, the number of COVID patients admitted into the ICU continued to grow even as the County s ICU bed availability percentage remains at 0.0%.
According to leaders for Eisenhower Health & the Desert Care Network, hospitals are now in the surge plans where rooms get converted to make space for ICU patients.
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