The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in San Mateo County crossed 700 on Monday, though the county’s death toll remained stagnant, marking a week since it last reported a fatality from the deadly new disease.
Health officials reported 49 new cases, bringing the county’s total to 701. Since being nearly tied with San Francisco and Alameda County to start last week, the other two counties outpaced San Mateo by more than 100 additional cases each. On Monday, San Francisco’s case count grew to 957, while Alameda County reported its 886th case.
Alameda County’s death toll surpassed San Mateo’s over the weekend. With San Francisco reporting its 15th fatality Monday, it also inched closer. San Mateo hasn’t reported a coronavirus-related death since it added eight on April 6 to bring its total to 21.
There continue to be more non-coronavirus patients in county ICUs than those with the virus. In total, COVID-19 patients take up 20 of the county’s 91 ICU beds, while 49 are still available. The number of those hospitalized remained the same at 72.
The county has 6,773 tests, with just over 10% coming back positive. It has been processing a little over 200 tests per day for the past week, slightly off the pace set in late March/early April.
The state began to clear its testing backlog earlier this month. It conducted its 200,000th test over the weekend, but more than 13,000 remain pending. More than 23,000 across the state had tested positive for the virus as of Sunday night, according to data compiled by this news organizations, while nearly 700 Californians had perished.
