Saturday marks the one-year anniversary since the first COVID-19 case was discovered in a Santa Clarita Valley resident in March of 2020.
On March 13, 2020, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital received the first result indicating a patient tested positive for coronavirus COVID-19, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson for the hospital.
“We had a positive COVID-19 test come back,” said Moody, at the time. “We don’t have a COVID-19 patient at the hospital.”
Since then, nearly 26,000 Santa Clarita Valley residents have tested positive for COVID-19, and over 260 have died due to health complications linked to coronavirus.
As of Saturday, March 13, 2021, 28 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the Santa Clarita Valley, with 25,961 cumulative cases having been reported in the valley over the past year, according to the LADPH. These cases include:
- 19,598 in the City of Santa Clarita*
- 45 in the unincorporated areas of Bouquet Canyon
- 806 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country
- 3,640 in Castaic*
- 66 in the unincorporated areas of Newhall
- 1 in Placerita Canyon
- 15 in San Francisquito/Bouquet Canyon
- 17 in unincorporated Sand Canyon
- 132 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus
- 39 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus/Canyon Country
- 1,092 in Stevenson Ranch
- 325 in the unincorporated areas of Val Verde
- 185 in the unincorporated areas of Valencia
*As of Wednesday, March 10, public health officials have recorded 1,978 cumulative cases have been reported at the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center, including 1,439 at the North County Correctional Facility. Those cases are distributed between both the City of Santa Clarita and Castaic totals. Those cases are distributed between both the City of Santa Clarita and Castaic totals.
In nearby Acton, there have been 456 cumulative cases, as well as 259 cases in Agua Dulce.
As of Saturday, the Los Angeles County’s cumulative total was 1,209,632 positive cases of COVID-19 and 22,446 deaths since the onset of the pandemic, according to the LADPH.
On Friday, L.A County Public Health officials announced on social media that L.A. County has met the state’s threshold to re-open key sectors in line with the red tier, allowing significant sectors to reopen their indoor operations just after midnight on Monday, March 15.
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The wave of reopenings comes from the increased amount of vaccinations across the Santa Clarita Valley as well as the county. As of Friday, 2,741,050 doses of vaccine have been administered across the Los Angeles county with 899,527 of them having received their second dose.
Officials with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) announced Friday that nearly 900,000 people within the county had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Next week, the county is expecting to receive 260,000 vaccine doses, down about 52,000 from the previous week.Check the Vaccinate L.A. County Website or follow @LAPublicHealth on social media for more information on when and where people in these sectors can get vaccinated.
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