The state’s agricultural counties experience the largest increase in the number of new cases, as it begins to drop in LA
Amid the tragedy of the flare-up and expansion of the coronavirus in California, earlier this week there were the first signs that the crisis is turning geographically.
Indeed, the most recent data shows that while infections are parked or falling in population centers hardest hit by the pandemic, such as in Los Angeles County, they are on the rise in the Central Valley area.
Here they comprise Fresno, San Joaquin, Kern, Tulare and Stanislaus counties. The numbers there compare to those of counties with much larger populations.
Each of these counties are now among the top 12 in the state, out of a total of 58, in number of infections.
According to the information compiled daily by the “Coronavirus Tracker” of the Mercury News newspaper, the state suffers a growth of around 10,000 cases per day on average, and more than 112 deaths per day.
Governor Gavin Newsom highlighted Monday from Stockton, at the epicenter of the virus’s spread, the change by announcing a new series of emergency funds for the Central Valley – which has replaced southern California as the epicenter of the virus’s spread.
State authorities will allocate $ 52 million of a total of $ 199 million that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention will send to the Central Valley area, to improve quarantine conditions and the examination systems for those suspected of carrying the virus, as well as for hiring more health workers, Newsom said.
The Latino community in these counties is even more vulnerable to the spread of evil, as many of its members participate in jobs considered frontline, including working in the fields.
Thus, in the agricultural area where these are concentrated, in the San Joaquin and Kern counties, the proportion of new cases is 52.6 per 100,000 residents per day, double what is considered the highest level of risk.
In comparison, Los Angeles County suffered a ratio of 36.9 cases per 100,000 in the first days of June, which has since dropped to 24.3 in the past two weeks, and the San Francisco area has a rate of 12.1 infections per 100,000 inhabitants.
Likewise, hospitalization rates have risen above those of Los Angeles County: 30.2 patients per 100,000 residents versus 20.5 in LA and just 9.7 in the San Francisco Bay area.
Regarding the positive results rate of the virus tests, in Tulare and Stanislaus counties it reached an alarming 17.7%, and 10.7% in Fresno, much higher than the state as a whole, which is just over 7 %.
The total death toll from COVID-19 in California reached 8,544 this Monday and is growing at the fastest rate since the start of the pandemic: 112 per day versus 63 just a month ago.
Only the states of New York and New Jersey have more fatalities in absolute terms. However, relative to population, the Golden State is below 25 other states in percentage of deaths.
In Los Angeles County, the number of new cases has been dropping relatively in the past two weeks, with an increase of just over 2,000 cases daily. In this county, the largest in the country, the highest number of deaths have been observed every day.
