Officials with Henry Newhall Newhall Hospital have reported over a dozen deaths from COVID-19 at the hospital over the past week alone as Los Angeles County surpasses 15,000 total COVID-19 deaths.
On Saturday, Henry Mayo spokesman Patrick Moody confirmed that four additional patients had died from COVID-19, marking 14 such deaths since the previous Saturday, Jan. 16.
Saturday’s update brings the hospital’s COVID-19 death total to 111, with at least 168 COVID-19 deaths reported across the Santa Clarita Valley as a whole since March 2020.
There were 77 COVID-19 patients in Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital as of Saturday, Jan. 23, while 949 patients have been discharged since the hospital’s first case was reported in March 2020, according to Moody.
The update comes the same day as officials with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) confirming that the county had surpassed 15,000 total COVID-19 deaths.
“We wish healing and peace to everyone mourning a loved one lost to COVID-19,” LADPH Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer said in a statement Saturday. “While we are seeing some positive data in daily new cases and hospitalizations, we are far from out of the woods. It is critically important we slow COVID-19 spread to decompress the strain on our healthcare system and save lives.”
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An additional 10,537 COVID-19 cases were reported in Los Angeles County on Saturday, along with 269 deaths, bringing the county’s cumulative total to 1,064,887 positive cases of COVID-19 and 15,162 deaths since March 2020, according to the LADPH.
On Saturday, 242 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the Santa Clarita Valley, with 22,129 cumulative cases having been reported in the valley since March of 2020, according to the LADPH. These cases include:
- 16,566 in the City of Santa Clarita* (+207)
- 39 in the unincorporated areas of Bouquet Canyon (+1)
- 661 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country (+1)
- 3,321 in Castaic* (+17)
- 59 in the unincorporated areas of Newhall
- 112 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus (+1)
- 26 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus/Canyon Country
- 897 in Stevenson Ranch (+10)
- 150 in the unincorporated areas of Valencia (+2)
- 255 in the unincorporated areas of Val Verde (+3)
- 13 in unincorporated Sand Canyon
- 13 in San Francisquito/Bouquet Canyon
In nearby Acton, there have been 373 cumulative cases, as well as 197 (+6) cases in Agua Dulce (+4).
*As of Tuesday, Jan. 19, public health officials have recorded 1,956 cumulative cases have been reported at the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center, including 1,425 at the North County Correctional Facility. Those cases are distributed between both the City of Santa Clarita and Castaic totals.
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