County Remains in Orange Tier
Following Tuesday’s tier assessment, Santa Barbara County remained in the orange tier of the state s Blueprint for a Safer Economy.
The county reported an adjusted case rate of 4.6 daily new cases per 100,000 people, a 1.6% testing positivity rate, and a 1.9% health equity testing positivity rate.
Do-Reynoso also shared Public Health’s quarterly COVID-19 report for the months of January through March, highlighting local case, hospitalization, and death trends.
The number of local cases peaked in January, Do-Reynoso said, with the highest number of daily active cases on Jan. 13 at 3,256 cases. Concurrent with the surge in cases, COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths climbed over January and into early February.