The number of novel coronavirus cases in San Bernardino climbed to 11,501 over the weekend as Governor Gavin Newsom recommended closing area bars to slow the spread. Numbers released Sunday (June 28), show the number of deaths stayed the same Saturday and rose by one Sunday to 249. The total number of people tested in the county grew to 130,179 on Sunday, of those tested, 8.8 percent of patients were positive. Chino saw its numbers jump by 300 over the weekend to 1,333; no other location in the county saw a triple digit increase. The next biggest increases were in San Bernardino, which went up by 51 cases to 1,943; and Fontana, which went up by 38 to 1,316.
Here in the Morongo Basin we have had 78 confirmed case: Yucca Valley with 39, Joshua Tree with 18, Twentynine Palms 14, and Morongo Valley seven.
Chino is the site of the two largest outbreaks in the county at the California Institution for Men and at the California Institution for Women. According to the county, it will take 19.3 days for the number of cases to double.
Adelanto 162
Apple Valley 160
Barstow 54
Big Bear City 4
Big Bear Lake 8
Bloomington 200
Chino 1,333
Chino Hills 218
Colton 495
Crestline 19
Fontana 1,316
Fort Irwin 2
Grand Terrace 52
Hesperia 303
Highland 340
Joshua Tree 18
Loma Linda 127
Mentone 57
Montclair 259
Morongo Valley 7
Needles 5
Oak Hills 40
Ontario 1,065
Phelan 41
Rancho Cucamonga 502
Redlands 486
Rialto 652
Rimforest 1
Running Springs 6
San Bernardino 1,943
Twentynine Palms 14
Upland 304
Victorville 490
Wrightwood 2
Yucaipa 314
Yucca Valley 39
Undetermined 463
Grand Total 11,501
