Coronavirus cases continued to increase across California as public health officials closed test sites and stopped reporting on New Year’s Day.
Health officials across the state reported 30,711 new cases of coronavirus and 179 new deaths, for a total of 2,356,569 cases and 26,538 deaths. In the bay area, 2,720 new cases have been reported and nine new deaths have been reported, as some counties have closed for the new year.
A total of 270,241 cases of the coronavirus have been reported in the bay area, and 2,633 people have died from the virus. Most coronavirus deaths were reported in San Francisco on Saturday, with health officials reporting 5 new deaths for a total of 194 deaths. City officials have so far reported 23,900 cases of the virus, 379 new cases were reported on Saturday.
In North Bay – which includes Sonoma, Solano, Marin and Napa counties – authorities reported 599 new cases of the coronavirus and four new deaths for a total of 54,334 cases and 462 deaths.
Neither Alameda or San Mateo counties reported new cases or deaths on Saturday. San Mateo County, which has a total of 24,589 cases and 194 deaths, closed the county’s test centers and offices on New Year’s Day. Alameda County has not reported any cases or deaths and remains with 52,322 total cases and 656 deaths.
The majority of infections reported anywhere in the Bay were in Santa Clara County, where 1,738 new cases were counted for a total of 73,493 cases.
At county headquarters, about 43 Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center Emergency Department employees tested positive for COVID-19 between December 27 and January 1, a senior hospital official said. No new deaths have been reported and the county remains with 747 dead.