Three more people in San Bernardino County have died from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, county officials said Monday, April 20, as confirmed cases rose by 120. There have been 60 deaths and 1,406 positive cases of COVID-19, according to the latest numbers released by the county Monday morning. On Sunday, April 19, there were 57 deaths and 1,286 cases. Here in the Morongo Basin there are 33 confirmed cases: Yucca Valley with 12; Twentynine Palms has eight; Morongo Valley six; Joshua Tree four; and Landers with three. San Bernardino has 159 cases, the most of any city in the county as of Monday, followed by Fontana, with 155; and Yucaipa, with 148.
There have been 13,438 people tested for the disease in a county of more than two million people. Of those tested, 10.5 percent were positive for the disease. Most of the cases, 647, are among people 18 to 49 years old, while 399 were 50 to 64 years old, 325 were older than 65 and 35 were 2 to 17 years old, the county’s data show. As of Monday, the disease affected men and women equally, at 49.4 percent of the total cases. The gender of 1.2% of the patients was unknown.
CASES BY COMMUNITY (April 20, 2020)
Adelanto: 11
Apple Valley: 18
Barstow: 10
Big Bear City: 2
Big Bear Lake: 4
Bloomington: 16
Blue Jay: 3
Chino: 77
Chino Hills: 51
Colton: 36
Crestline: 5
Daggett: 1
Fontana: 155
Fort Irwin: 2
Grand Terrace: 16
Hesperia: 39
Highland: 60
Joshua Tree: 4
Landers: 3
Loma Linda: 24
Mentone: 5
Montclair: 20
Morongo Valley: 6
Oak Hills: 6
Ontario: 77
Phelan: 2
Piñon Hills: 2
Rancho Cucamonga: 83
Redlands: 73
Rialto: 59
Rimforest: 1
Running Springs: 2
San Bernardino: 159
Twentynine Palms: 8
Upland: 47
Victorville: 67
Wrightwood: 1
Yucaipa: 148
Yucca Valley: 12
