With the Easter weekend ahead, the county’s Health and Human Services Agency wants to remind the San Diegans to celebrate the holiday safely. Although the COVID-19 case numbers remain well below the December and January highs, it is too early to let your guard down and attend meetings without certain precautions.
Unvaccinated san diegans must continue to adhere to current California Department of Public Health guidelines and keep meetings small and short. The meetings should not include more than three families in total.
Participants should wear a facial covering when they are not eating and adhere to social distance practices. While indoor meetings are allowed, outdoor meetings are recommended.
According to the new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, those who are fully vaccinated can begin to relax restrictions and attend meetings with other fully vaccinated people.
“Although the new CDC guideline states that it is safe for fully vaccinated people to meet indoors or outdoors without a facial cover, we know that at present, only about one in five San Diegans aged 16 and over is currently fully immunized, ”said Wilma J. Wooten, MD, MPH, county public health officer. “I encourage everyone to follow the best practices for their situation to celebrate this holiday safely and keep us on track to get back to all the activities we enjoy.”
Easter Test and Vaccinations
Various county testing and vaccination sites will take a break on Sunday for the Easter holiday. The following sites will remain open, with modified hours:
- Test locations without an appointment at Cal State San Marcos and Tubman Chavez Community Center will be open with condensed hours from 10 am to 2 pm
- The vaccination posts for the North Coastal Live Well Center, the Lemon Grove Community Center and the South Region Public Health Center will be open from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm.
- Vaccine sites at the Martin Luther King Jr. and Borderview YMCA Community Center will be closed at Easter.
Vaccination progress:
- Almost 1.89 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were delivered to the region and nearly 1.76 million were registered as administered. This number includes county residents and those who work in San Diego County.
- Of those vaccinated to date, more than 586,000 residents of the county, or 21.8% of residents of San Diegans aged 16 and over, are fully immunized.
- Overall, more than 975,000 county residents received at least one injection of the two-dose vaccine. That is 36.3% of those eligible.
- Those who received the Johnson & Johnson single dose vaccine are being added to the total of fully vaccinated San Diegans.
- The difference between the doses administered and those used in a vaccination represents approximately what is expected to be administered in the next seven days and the doses yet to be entered into the registration system.
- More information on vaccine distribution can be found on the county’s vaccination panel. For details on currently eligible groups and vaccination opportunities, visit www.vaccinationsuperstation.com.
State metrics:
- The rate of cases adjusted and calculated by the state of San Diego County is currently 4.9 cases per 100,000 residents. The county is at the red level.
- Currently, the percentage of positivity of the test is 2.1%, placing the County at Level 3 or at Orange Level.
- The county’s health equity metric, which analyzes the test’s positivity for areas with the lowest health conditions, is 2.7% and is also at orange or level 3.
- While two of the three metrics qualify the county for Orange or Level 3, the state assigns counties to the most restrictive level.
- The California Department of Public Health evaluates counties weekly. The next report is scheduled for Tuesday, April 6.
Community configuration outbreaks:
- Two new community outbreaks were confirmed on April 1, one in a restaurant / bar and the other in a retail environment.
- In the last seven days (March 26 to April 1), 10 community outbreaks have been confirmed.
- The number of outbreaks in the community remains above the trigger of seven or more in seven days.
- An outbreak in a community setting is defined as three or more cases of COVID-19 in an environment and in people from different households in the last 14 days.
Test:
- 18,435 tests were notified to the county on April 1, and the percentage of new positive cases was 3%.
- The 14-day moving average percentage of positive cases is 2.3%. The target is less than 8.0%.
- The daily average of 7-day tests is 12,500.
ICU cases, hospitalizations and admissions:
- 496 COVID-19 cases were reported to the county on March 31. The total for the region is now 271,035.
- 14,855 or 5.5% of all cases required hospitalization.
- 1,651 or 0.6% of all cases and 11.1% of hospitalized cases had to be admitted to the intensive care unit.
Deaths:
- 13 new deaths from COVID-19 were reported on April 1. The total for the region is 3,568.
- Four women and nine men died between 11 January and 1 April.
- Of the people who died, three were 80 years old or more, seven in their 70s, two in their 60s and one in their 50s.
- All had underlying medical conditions.
More information:
The most detailed data summaries found in the County coronavirus-sd.com website are updated around 5pm daily.