California Coronavirus Updates: California Legislature Greenlights Tax Cut For Small Businesses Due To COVID-19 Tuesday, April 27, 2021 | Sacramento, CA Find an updated count of COVID-19 cases in California and by county on our tracker here. Latest Updates 6:33 p.m.: Sacramento stays in red tier while Amador and Sutter improve A few counties in Northern California have moved into less-restrictive tiers in the state's reopening system based on their COVID-19 positivity test rates. Amador, Glenn and Sutter Counties have moved from the second-most restrictive red tier to the orange tier. Mendocino County has moved from orange to yellow. Sacramento County, with a case rate of 8.4 per 100,000, has been in the red tier since March 15.