Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) officials announced Wednesday that additional cases of a potentially “more severe” COVID-19 variant have been detected.
Amidst the decline of COVID-19 cases among pregnant women as well as residents and staff at skilled nursing facilities, 34% of specimens analyzed at the Public Health Laboratory this past week contained a COVID-19 variant with the probability of being “more severe,” LADPH officials said.
The California variant, identified as B.1.427, is being compared to a similar variant in the United Kingdom, identified as B.1.1.7, in which both variants reportedly warrant a concern for “increased transmissibility.”
An additional 666 COVID-19 cases and 92 deaths were reported across L.A. County Wednesday, according to officials.
This brings the county’s cumulative total to 1,215,736 positive cases of COVID-19 and 22,960 deaths since the onset of the pandemic, according to the LADPH officials.
Testing results are available for over 6,032,000 people, with a cumulative 19 percent of people testing positive, according to officials.
As of Wednesday, there were 719 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in L.A. County, 25 percent of which were in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
The Southern California Region has 31.8 percent staffed adult ICU capacity remaining as of the state’s last update on Tuesday, March 23, according to State health officials.
Residents are encouraged to continue to prevent the spread of COVID-19, to not gather in crowds, stay home when sick, wear a face covering and maintain physical distance from others when outside of the home.
A travel advisory remains in effect for L.A. County. Anyone who is arriving in L.A. County must self-quarantine for 10 days, according to officials.
Residents are asked to remain at home or lodging for 10 days and avoid contact with others.
On Wednesday, March 24, 2021, new COVID-19 cases were reported in the Santa Clarita Valley, with 26,223 cumulative cases having been reported in the valley over the past year, according to the LADPH. These cases include:
- 19,804 in the City of Santa Clarita* (+21)
- 47 in the unincorporated areas of Bouquet Canyon
- 815 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country (+1)
- 3,665 in Castaic* (+1)
- 67 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
- 1,109 in Stevenson Ranch (+6)
- 327 in the unincorporated areas of Val Verde
- 185 in the unincorporated areas of Valencia
*As of Monday, March 22, public health officials have recorded 1,982 cumulative cases have been reported at the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center, including 1,443 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 460 cumulative cases (+1), as well as 266 (+1) cases in Agua Dulce.
There were six COVID-19 patients in Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital as of Wednesday, March 10, while 1,171 patients have been discharged since the hospital’s first case was reported in March 2020, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson for the hospital.
One additional death was reported at Henry Mayo on Monday, March 8, with a total of 145 coronavirus deaths at the hospital, with at least 264 COVID-19 deaths reported across the Santa Clarita Valley since March 2020.
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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