COVID-19, has claimed four more lives and infected 101 more people in San Bernardino County, the public health department reported Wednesday (April 29). Eighty-nine people have died from the disease and 1,928 have tested positive. Here in the Morongo Basin there are 36 confirmed cases: Joshua Tree with 14 and the only two local deaths; Yucca Valley with 11; Twentynine Palms with five; Morongo Valley has five; and Landers with one.
That is a 5.5 percent jump from Tuesday when 1,827 people were positive, according to the county’s online dashboard. The county has tested 19,499 people, of which 9.9 percent were positive for COVID-19. About 4.9% of the people who get the disease die, the data show. Fontana had 227 of those cases, while San Bernardino had 225 cases, Yucaipa had 175, Ontario had 137 and Rancho Cucamonga had 111.
Residents 50 to 59 years old have tested positive the most, representing 379 of the confirmed cases. However, the majority of those who have died—52—were older than 75. Cases are split almost evenly between men and women, but more men are dying from the disease, about 62.9 percent, compared to women at 37 percent. There are more cases among Latinos, about 59.1 percent, but more deaths among non-Latinos, at 52.8 percent, the data show.
CASES BY COMMUNITY
Adelanto: 25 cases, 0 deaths
Angelus Oaks: 1 case, 0 deaths
Apple Valley: 22 cases, 2 deaths
Barstow: 9 cases, 2 deaths
Big Bear City: 2 cases, 0 deaths
Big Bear Lake: 5 cases, 0 deaths
Bloomington: 24 cases, 1 death
Blue Jay: 3 cases, 0 deaths
Chino: 54 cases, 0 deaths
Chino Hills: 56 cases, 1 death
Colton: 63 cases, 7 deaths
Crestline: 5 cases, 1 death
Fontana: 227 cases, 5 deaths
Fort Irwin: 2 cases, 0 deaths
Grand Terrace: 14 cases, 1 death
Hesperia: 51 cases, 1 death
Highland: 63 cases, 3 deaths
Joshua Tree: 14 cases, 2 deaths
Landers: 1 case, 0 deaths
Loma Linda: 39 cases, 0 deaths
Mentone: 11 cases, 0 deaths
Montclair: 28 cases, 3 deaths
Morongo Valley: 5 cases, 0 deaths
Oak Hills: 11 cases, 0 deaths
Ontario: 137 cases, 5 deaths
Piñon Hills: 3 cases, 0 deaths
Phelan: 8 cases, 0 deaths
Rancho Cucamonga: 111 cases, 5 deaths
Redlands: 94 cases, 7 deaths
Rialto: 83 cases, 4 deaths
Rimforest: 1 case, 0 deaths
Running Springs: 2 cases, 0 deaths
San Bernardino: 225 cases, 4 deaths
Twentynine Palms: 5 cases, 0 deaths
Upland: 89 cases, 7 deaths
Victorville: 86 cases, 6 deaths
Wrightwood: 1 case, 0 deaths
Yucaipa: 175 cases, 21 deaths
Yucca Valley: 11 cases, 0 deaths
Undetermined: 162 cases, 1 death
