Seven more people were added to the coronavirus death toll in the Bay Area on Friday, six of them in San Mateo County.
That grim news continued a gloomy month for the county, which has recorded 99 deaths overall from COVID-19 since the pandemic started. Fifteen of those have come in June; the county recorded 36 deaths in May.
Santa Clara County, which was expected to update its statistics later Friday, has recorded 148 deaths, the most in Northern California. Alameda County, which recorded the Bay Area’s other death Friday, has counted 109 fatalities.
The statistics were reflected through Thursday night. San Francisco and Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Mateo counties reported their latest figures before 2 p.m.
Alameda County also added nearly 100 more confirmed cases to its Northern California-leading total and has counted 4,216 since the pandemic began, more than 1,000 ahead of Santa Clara County in second position.
California: More than 3,600 new cases
The number of new cases in Thursday’s reporting was 3,643, the second-highest number for one day during the pandemic, according to data compiled by this news organization. There had been an average of 2,939 new cases per day over seven days through Thursday, the pandemic’s highest mark for a seven-day average.
California also is closing in on 5,000 deaths from the virus. There were 74 additional fatalities reported on Thursday and the total is 4,928. Over the past week, about 68 people per day in the state have died.
Much of the state continues to relax restrictions to stay-at-home orders as the economy begins to reopen.
Alameda County: Eight deaths over past four days
The county recorded its 109th death overall since the pandemic began, and eight have been recorded over the last four days, all of which have tallied at least one. Not since mid-May had the county recorded deaths on four straight days. Overall, there have been 13 deaths in the first 11 days of June; there were 12 over the same period in May.
The 97 new cases were the most recorded in a single day since May 31 and marked the seventh time since May 22 that more than 90 cases were recorded in a single day. Before that, daily cases topped 90 only once. The county is averaging 68 new cases per day in June.
Part of the reason for the increase is testing-related: The county has performed about 1,774 tests per day during the first 11 days in June, an increase of about 725 per day from the first 11 days of May.
Thirty-two people remained in hospital intensive care units for the third straight day.
Contra Costa County: Testing dips, cases rise
The rolling seven-day averages of daily tests has decreased from about 79 residents-per-100,000 a day in the final 11 days of May to about 67 residents-per-100,000 over the first 11 days in June.
Meanwhile, cases are still rising. Another 48 confirmed cases added Friday put the overall total at 1,877, including 409 in June — an average of about 37 a day.
Before this month, health officials added 37 or more cases in a day only six times.
There were still 20 people in area hospitals per Friday’s report, and the death toll remained at 44.
San Mateo County: More than 2,500 confirmed cases
The county went over 2,500 confirmed cases during the pandemic, adding 39 more to the ledger. That figure was more than the average of 33 per day over the past week. Of the 2,533 cases overall, 1,158 (46%) have been in the Latino population and 897 (35%) have been between 21 and 40 years old.
Nine people were being treated in the ICU, the fifth straight day there were fewer than 10 people in intensive care.
Health officials conducted 8,066 tests through the first 10 days of June, an increase of more than 300 per day compared to May 1-10.
San Francisco: Hispanic/Latino population hit hard
Thirty-eight more cases were confirmed, bringing the city’s total to 2,878, the third-most in the Bay Area. About 49% of those testing positive have been Latino, even though that group makes up only about 15% of the city’s population. Young people have been significantly affected; 42% of the infected patients have been between 18 and 40 years old.
About 2,267 tests per day were conducted from June 1-10; over the same period in May, about 1,597 tests were run per day.
Hospitals added one coronavirus patient and were treating 37, but the number of people in the ICUs decreased from 15 to 14.
The death toll stayed at 44, and there has been only one fatality in the city since June 1.
