A ninth person in San Francisco has died from COVID-19, health officials announced Monday.
The city also reported 15 additional cases, bringing its total of confirmed cases to 583, the second-most in the Bay Area.
Supervisor Matt Haney on Monday morning reported he was notified that two homeless people have tested positive for the coronavirus. They were both staying in a shelter in Haney’s district.
“This is a disaster, and getting more dangerous by the hour,” Haney said in a tweet. “No more delay. Move people into hotel rooms, NOW.”
But it has hardly experienced the same sharp increase in cases as other parts of California and the country. The number of cases in San Francisco is doubling at a rate of over a week. Meanwhile, Los Angeles County has nearly doubled its count in four days, the number of positive tests rising to 5,940 as of Sunday evening.
The number of cases in San Francisco remained slightly more than that of neighboring San Mateo County, which reported 24 new cases Monday.
Across California, there were more than 15,000 total cases and nearly 300 deaths from COVID-19 as of Sunday evening, according to data compiled by this news organization. The Bay Area could hit 4,000 confirmed cases Monday.
