Recoveries continue to increase in Tulare County

There are now 1,449 people in Tulare County who have recovered after testing positive for COVID-19.

That’s the number that was reported by Tulare County Health and Human Services on Monday as the number of those who have recovered continues to increase. On Friday when the department last issued a report, it reported 1,370 people had recovered after testing positive for COVID-19.

The department reported the total number of cases in Tulare County increased to 2,220 on Monday. That was an increase from 2,116 that was reported on Friday.

The department reported there were two more deaths due to COVID-19 over the weekend, bringing the total number of people in Tulare County who have died due to the coronavirus to 94.

The department reported there have been 192 cases in Southeastern Tulare County, which includes Porterville. The official tally for Lindsay is 125.

There have been 315 cases in Tulare and 409 cases in Dinuba. There have been 70 cases in Southwestern Tulare County, five cases in foothill/mountain communities, 11 cases in Strathmore, 76 cases in Farmersville, 23 cases in Exeter, 11 cases in Goshen, 22 cases in Ivanhoe, 12 cases in Traver, 19 cases in Woodlake, 11 cases in the Reedley area and 11 cases in Orange Cove.

The department reported 34 cases were travel related, 1,123 cases were due to person-to-person contact and 1063 cases are being investigated.

There have been 109 cases ages 0-17, 292 ages 18-25, 519 ages 26-40, 750 ages 41-64 and 461 ages 65 and older.

There are 994 people in Tulare County who are under self-quarantine and being monitored by public health officials.

The number of active cases has increased slightly but still remains relatively low. The department reported there were 677 active cases on Monday, an increase over the 654 that was re

ported on Friday.

The number of hospitalizations remained about the same as the department reported there are 39 hospitalizations in Tulare County due to COVID-19.

Of those hospitalizations, nine were in intensive care. The number of nursing home COVID-19 cases in Tulare County also remained about the same at 372.

As of 5 p.m. Monday, Sierra View Medical Center reported it had 47 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including eight inpatient COVID-19 cases. Sierra View has had 12 deaths due to COVID-19.

The hospital reported it has had 1,300 tests conducted as of Sunday while there have been 5,326 tests conducted at the Tulare County testing lab as of Friday.

With a population of about 470,000 people, Tulare County has had about 4.75 cases per 1,000, which is .475 percent.

As of Sunday’s, Tulare County’s doubling time — the amount of days it would take for cases to double — stayed relatively high at 51 days, meaning the curve of cases is remaining relatively flat.

MOVIE THEATERS CAN OPEN FRIDAY

Governor Gavin Newsom announced movie theaters can open on Friday, but with significant restrictions. Movie Theaters were added to the list of business that can reopen in stage 3 of California’s reopening plan.

Movie theaters must limit attendance to 25 percent of theater capacity or 100 customers, whichever is lower.

The state issued guidelines for some counties, include Tulare County last Friday to move forward with stage 3 reopenings on June 12. The Tulare County Health and Human Services issued a press release on guidelines for business that can open on Friday that can be viewed here: https://tchhsa.org/ eng/index.cfm/publichealth/covid-19-updatesnovel-coronavirus/ tulare-county-covid-19news-releases/june-52020-news-release-statereleases-new-guidancefor-businesses-and-industry-to-reopen-effective-june-12/