Over 8,800 new cases of COVID-19 were reported within Los Angeles County Friday, shattering the previous one-day record by over 1,000 cases and marking the third day of record-high cases reported this week.
An additional 8,860 coronavirus cases have been reported in Los Angeles County on Friday, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
The additional cases reported Friday bring the county’s cumulative total to 430,583, according to the department.
This comes at the heels of the largest one-day number of Los Angeles coronavirus cases being reported on Thursday, breaking the record from earlier this week, public health officials said.
There are 2,668 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 as of Friday, 24 percent of which are in the ICU.
The number of hospitalizations exceeds the peak of 2,232 people hospitalized with COVID-19 during the July surge. The daily number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 has increased nearly every day since Nov. 1 when the daily number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 was 799.
60 additional deaths have been reported Friday with the total deaths across the county reaching 7,842, according to public health.
On Tuesday, Los Angeles public health officials reported the previous highest one-day number of cases, infecting more people at a “faster rate than ever seen in L.A. County before.”
The daily test positivity rate as of Friday is over 12 percent, up from 7 percent one week ago, according to the LADPH.
Over 3,838,000 coronavirus tests have been conducted as of Friday, with about 10 percent of those tests returning positive.
An additional 143 Santa Clarita Valley coronavirus cases were reported Friday, for a total of 10,126 cumulative cases in the valley since testing began in March, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH). These cases include:
- 6,752 in the City of Santa Clarita* (+117)
- 264 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country (+7)
- 2,462 in Castaic* (+14)
- 51 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus
- 331 in Stevenson Ranch (+4)
- 67 in the unincorporated areas of Valencia (+2)
- 122 in the unincorporated areas of Val Verde
- 36 in the unincorporated areas of Newhall
- 16 in the unincorporated areas of Bouquet Canyon
- 15 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus/Canyon Country (+1)
- Seven in unincorporated Sand Canyon
- Three in San Francisquito/Bouquet Canyon
In nearby Acton, there have been 134 cases, as well as 64 cases in Agua Dulce.
*As of Thursday, Dec. 3, public health officials have recorded 1,922 cumulative cases have been reported at the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center, including 1,397 at the North County Correctional Facility. Those cases are distributed between both the City of Santa Clarita and Castaic totals.
As of Friday, Dec. 4, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital has conducted 12,881 COVID-19 tests. Of those, 1,508 have tested positive, and 10 tests are still pending with Henry Mayo, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson for the hospital.
There are 52 patients in the hospital as of Wednesday, Dec. 2 while 428 patients have been discharged since the hospital’s first case was reported in March, according to Moody.
One additional death was reported at Henry Mayo on Friday with the number of COVID-19 patients doubling over the past weeks. `
There have been a total of 39 coronavirus deaths at the hospital, with at least 81 COVID-19 deaths reported across the Santa Clarita Valley.
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Ed. Note: These numbers are subject to change based on further investigation by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
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