SAN DIEGO (CNS) – San Diego County will remain in the most restrictive purple layer of the state’s four-tier coronavirus reopening plan, it was announced on Tuesday, but there is still a possibility of being promoted to the less restrictive red layer until the end of the month.
According to state data released on Tuesday, San Diego County has an adjusted case rate of 8.8 new daily cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 people. To be promoted to the red level – and its limited share of in-house restaurants, gyms, cinemas and other businesses and services – the county must report a daily case rate of less than 7 per 100,000 and then maintain that rate for two weeks. .
By those numbers, the earliest the county can move to the red level is March 30. The California Department of Public Health evaluates counties weekly and schedules updates for Tuesdays.
The percentage of positivity of the test is 3.3%, placing the county in the orange layer. Although the test positivity rate for the county qualifies it for orange, the state uses the most restrictive metric – in this case, the adjusted case rate – and assigns counties to that layer. The county’s health equity metric, which analyzes the test’s positivity for areas with the lowest health conditions, is 4.5% and is also at the orange level.
Meanwhile, deficiencies in the COVID-19 vaccine will close the Del Mar Fairgrounds super vaccination site again this weekend, and a technical error caused 1,800 vaccine appointments for this week to be rescheduled, Scripps Health announced Tuesday. market.
Scripps, which runs the Del Mar website, will be closed from Friday to Sunday due to the low number of vaccine doses that were delivered to Scripps during the week.
The reopening of the station is scheduled for Monday.
Patients who had an appointment on one of the three closed days are being rescheduled for Thursday or early next week automatically via the MyTurn online scheduling system.
County public health officials reported 307 new COVID-19 infections on Monday, increasing the total number of cases to 263,275. No new deaths were reported on Monday and the death toll remained at 3,390.
The number of hospitalizations due to COVID-19 has dropped to 337 from 351 on Sunday, with 109 cases in the intensive care unit – down from 113 on Sunday. There are 53 ICU beds available in the county.
Of 9,770 exams reported by the county on Monday, 3% returned positive. The 14-day moving average remained at 3.2%.
There were no new outbreaks in the community reported on Monday. There have been 24 outbreaks in the past seven days, with 89 cases associated with those outbreaks.