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24.1% OF THOSE TESTING FOR CORONAVIRUS ARE POSITIVE

In the week ending January 2, 24.1% of San Bernardino County residents tested for the coronavirus were infected, state data released Tuesday (January 12) show. The county’s test-positivity rate of 24.1% across those seven days ranked second in the state to Riverside County. Also, state data show, San Bernardino County’s adjusted case rate for the week ending January 2 topped 100 new cases per day per 100,000 residents for the first time. County health officials reported 3,121 new coronavirus cases and five deaths Tuesday. Also announced were 24,823 recovered cases. For the first time since mid-October, San Bernardino County had fewer people hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 cases Sunday, January 10, and Monday, January 11, than the week before. As of Monday, January 11, 1,692 COVID-19 patients were in county hospitals, figures show, with 341 people in intensive care units.

Here are the latest San Bernardino County numbers.

Confirmed cases: 234,871 total, up 3,121 from Monday, averaging 3,073 reported per day in the past week

Deaths: 1,551 total, up five from Monday, averaging 14.4 reported per day in the past week

Hospital survey: 1,692 confirmed and 87 suspected patients hospitalized Monday, including 341 confirmed and 12 suspected patients in the ICU, with 25 of 25 facilities reporting. The number of confirmed patients is down 4.0% from a week earlier.

People tested: 1,893,665 total, up 21,553 from Monday, averaging 20,413 reported per day in the past week

Resolved cases (estimate): 234,871 total, up 24,823 from Monday, averaging 6,392 per day in the past week

Metrics tracked by the state:

ICU availability: 0.0% across Southern California

New cases per day per 100,000 residents: 140.2

Case rate adjusted for testing volume: 102.8

Test positivity rate: 24.1% (26.0% in socioeconomically challenged neighborhoods)

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