Kings County reports coronavirus-related death in nursing facility, adds 38 cases

Another coronavirus-related death at a Kings County skilled nursing facility over the weekend raised the county’s overall fatality toll to 33.

There were 39 additional positive test results for COVID-19 reported Sunday by the county Public Health department in Hanford, including 38 among the general population for a total of 1,392 among that group.

One additional case in a skilled nursing facility brought that total to 135.

The 1,146 positive results in state prison facilities in Avenal and Corcoran remained unchanged.

No other central San Joaquin Valley county (also including Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, Merced and Tulare counties) had updated its numbers as of Sunday night.

Overall, 19 people have died in Kings County nursing homes, 11 among the general population and three in the prisons.

There have been a total of 1,542 people considered to have recovered from the illness — 625 in the general population, 878 among the prisons and 39 in skilled nursing facilities.