Five new coronavirus deaths push Sacramento County toll to 74. ICU cases at all-time high
Sacramento County public health officials on Monday reported five new deaths from the coronavirus, among the deadliest one-day increases since the pandemic began.
The new deaths, which come amid a major surge in new COVID-19 cases and greatly increased hospitalization rates across the county, push Sacramento’s countywide death toll to 74.
The public health department also disclosed 159 new coronavirus cases to push the all-time total to 4,395 infections, according to Sacramento County’s online data dashboard.
Of the 74 fatalities, 36 have died in the city of Sacramento, where more than 2,700 of the nearly 4,400 infected people have resided. Another 15 have died in unincorporated Sacramento County, nine in Citrus Heights, seven in Rancho Cordova, four in Elk Grove and three in Folsom.
Hospitalization data maintained by state health officials, last updated Monday afternoon, show that Sacramento County has seen COVID-19 hospitalizations soar from 39 as of June 20 to 148 by Sunday. Of those, 41 are in the ICU, down one from 42 on Saturday, which represented an all-time high.
Sacramento remains on the state’s watch list for counties with elevated COVID-19 activity. As of Monday morning, that list included 23 counties accounting for close to 80 percent of California’s 40 million residents.
With 4,395 total cases, 74 dead and only 1,976 classified by the county as “likely recovered,” more than 2,300 infections — half of the all-time total — could be considered active as of Monday.
The four-county Sacramento region has now reported 111 coronavirus fatalities: 74 in Sacramento, 26 in Yolo, 11 in Placer and still none in El Dorado.
This story was originally published July 6, 2020 at 11:46 AM.
