Orange County First District Supervisor Andrew Do was unanimously elected [yesterday] as the new Chairman of the Orange County Transportation Authority Board of Directors, which is responsible for planning, funding, and delivering transportation-improvement projects and public transit for all of Orange County.
UpdatedFri, Dec 18, 2020 at 4:32 pm PT
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Medical tents are set up outside the emergency room at UCI Medical Center in Irvine, Calif. When Gov. Gavin Newsom provided a dire view of California s out-of-control surge of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations this week. ( (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File))
ORANGE COUNTY, CA Orange County broke more records Friday for the number of residents hospitalized due to coronavirus.
The county is also dealing with an uptick in outbreaks at skilled nursing and assisted living facilities. As of Friday, 33 skilled nursing facilities have had two or more confirmed cases of COVID-19 within the past two weeks, and 35 assisted living facilities had two or more cases. County officials have been asked to provide personal protective equipment, more training, or staffing to help curb the spread of COVID-19 in those facilities, where the main reason for the spread is likely from employees who contract the virus off-site.
Santa Ana Officials Urge Public to Avoid Holiday Festivities
Santa Ana Mayor Vicente Sarmiento joined Santa Ana Unified School District and City Council members in a news conference Dec. 17, appealing to residents of the Southern California city to avoid participating in holiday festivities and to wear face coverings in public.
Some of the participants attended the news conference in person and some through a Zoom call.
“The reason why we’re here is we want to speak with one voice, with one common message,” Sarmiento said.
“I believe in us, I believe in our community. I know we can do this together, but we need a rallying cry. This is a call to service. We can’t do this alone. We need your help. We’re pleading with you to join us to save our community.”