The number of coronavirus cases in San Bernardino County passed 10,000 Tuesday (June 23), as the county reported its highest one-day case increase yet. An additional 649 cases were announced Tuesday, bringing the total number of residents infected with COVID-19 to 10,010. Deaths remained at 234.
Here in the Morongo Basin we have 69 confirmed cases: Yucca Valley with 32, Joshua Tree 18, Twentynine Palms 12, and Morongo Valley seven.
The percentage of all tests that come back positive has been 8.6 percent. The state requires an 8 percent positivity rate averaged over a seven-day period. Case increases are being tied to gatherings held over Mother’s Day and Memorial Day weekends, re-openings, and protests over police brutality that drew crowds.
More younger people are testing positive; one-third of the new cases diagnosed in the past month were in county residents under age 30. There are now more confirmed cases in people under 30 than those over 60. No county residents under 30 have died so far. People 60 and older continue to make up about 80 percent of deaths in San Bernardino County.
A projected 5,666 people have recovered from the disease, according to the county.
The time it takes for the virus to double in the community continues to increase at 19.1 days. Testing was up 2.3 percent from Monday, with an additional 2,529 people getting tested for the disease.
In the county of 2.1 million residents, 111,590 have been tested, of which 9 percent were positive. The county has given 16,451 serology tests, of which 1.17 percent were positive for coronavirus antibodies.
Monday, June 22, 301 COVID-19 positive patients and 84 suspected patients were in county hospitals. There were 109 positive patients and 14 suspected patients in intensive care, up from 97 and 11 Monday, the state’s data show. As of Sunday, June 21, 31 of the 1,136 beds available for a surge of patients were in use and 159 intensive care beds were still available, according to the dashboard. There were 266 ventilators in use and 543 still available on Sunday, the dashboard shows.
Adelanto 137
Apple Valley 136
Barstow 37
Big Bear City 4
Big Bear Lake 7
Bloomington 161
Chino 1,244
Chino Hills 195
Colton 422
Crestline 19
Fontana 1,114
Fort Irwin 2
Grand Terrace 45
Hesperia 272
Highland 301
Joshua Tree 18
Loma Linda 111
Mentone 46
Montclair 223
Morongo Valley 7
Needles 4
Oak Hills 37
Ontario 955
Phelan 36
Rancho Cucamonga 444
Redlands 419
Rialto 570
Rimforest 1
Running Springs 5
San Bernardino 1,646
Twentynine Palms 12
Upland 259
Victorville 429
Wrightwood 2
Yucaipa 292
Yucca Valley 32
Undetermined 366
Grand Total 10,010
COUNTY PASSES 10,000 CORONAVIRUS CASES, HIGHEST 1-DAY INCREASE YET
