Rate of new COVID cases in Fresno County ticks higher. Plus, two more deaths
Eighty-nine new cases of COVID-19 were reported Saturday in Fresno County, along with 104 on Sunday and Monday, pushing the total number of patients with confirmed cases of coronavirus since Friday to 193.
The 89 new patients reported on Saturday by both the Fresno County and state health departments were the highest one-day report in almost four weeks. The date indicates when the cases were confirmed through testing, not when a person contracted the coronavirus or began showing symptoms.
A week ago, Fresno County was experiencing a seven-day rolling average of fewer than 44 new reported COVID-19 cases per day – the lowest number in more than 11 months. In the week since, that has climbed to 51 new cases per day – or an average of about 4.9 new cases for every 100,000 residents each day over the course of a week.
Also over the weekend and through Monday, two additional deaths from COVID-19 were reported among Fresno County residents.
Over the 14 months since the first local instances in the global coronavirus pandemic were confirmed, more than 101,700 cases have occurred among people in the county, including 1,682 who have died.
Elsewhere in the Valley, counties provided these updates on Monday:
Kings County: 29 new COVID-19 cases since Friday, 22,977 to date; no additional deaths, 246 to date.
Madera County: 21 new cases since Friday, 16,348 to date; no additional deaths, 242 to date.
Mariposa County: One new case since Friday, 447 to date; no additional deaths, seven to date.
Merced County: 78 new cases since Friday, 31,821 to date; one additional death, 459 to date.
Tulare County: 25 new cases since Friday, 49,579 to date; no additional deaths, 839 to date.
Valleywide, the seven-day average number of new cases in the region through Monday was about 106 per day. At midweek last week, that average was as low as 77 per day – the lowest it had been in more than a year, in the early stages of the pandemic prior to a summer surge.
This story was originally published May 10, 2021 at 3:14 PM.
