Tulare County adds 10 deaths, nears LA for California’s highest coronavirus mortality rate
Tulare County health officials on Friday confirmed 10 more people have died of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths in the county to 64.
The county now ranks No. 2 in the state, just behind Los Angeles County, for COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 people.
Statewide, the mortality rate from COVID-19 is about 7.6 per 100,000 residents, according to a Fresno Bee canvass of county health department websites statewide and Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.
In Tulare County, the rate is 13.3 deaths per 100,000.
Los Angeles County has the highest number of deaths in the state and has mortality rate of 16.7 per 100,000 residents. Yolo County in Northern California ranks in third, with 9.9 deaths per 100,000.
Around the region
The 10 deaths come after a comparatively calm Thursday in the central San Joaquin Valley, in which no new deaths were reported.
On Friday morning, health officials in Mariposa County confirmed the death of a 78-year-old woman. It was the first death recorded in the county. In all, Mariposa County has seen 15 positive cases. Fourteen people have recovered.
More than 3,000 people have tested positive for the coronavirus across the six-county region as of midday Friday.
Of those, the majority are split between Fresno County and Tulare County, which added 43 new cases Friday. It now counts, 1,338 cases and has surpassed Fresno County in the number of recovered patients (376).
Fresno County reported 1,074 positive cases Thursday with 13 deaths. More than 350 people have recovered.
Kings County has 358 positive cases. One person has died and 106 have recovered.
Merced County has 189 cases total and four deaths. One-hundred twenty people have recovered.
Madera County had a total of 69 cases. Two people have died and 45 have recovered.
This story was originally published May 15, 2020 at 1:23 PM.