Hospital admissions increased, cases down in Riverside County since Tuesday
COVID-19 hospitalizations and cases are stable compared to a week ago when the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival kicked off its first weekend.
A dozen more people have been hospitalized with COVID-19 in Riverside County since Tuesday, according to latest county data. The total number of admissions was 55 on Friday. One week ago, the number was 54.
Between Tuesday and Friday, the county added 256 new COVID-19 cases. In the same Tuesday-Friday period the week before, there were 305 new cases.
Tuesday’s figures:Coachella Valley COVID-19 cases rose 77% after Coachella’s first weekend
Three deaths and 496 cures have also been reported since Tuesday, bringing the total number of deaths in the county since the start of the pandemic to 6,507.
Booster vaccinations among the 12 and older increased from 32.5% to 32.7%. The number of children aged 5 and older who are fully vaccinated remains unchanged at around 62%.
While new county-level data was released on Friday, new city-level data was not. It will be released again on Tuesday.
The nine Coachella Valley reported earlier this week 193 new cases in the week ending Tuesday. This was an increase of 77% compared to the week before, when 109 cases were reported between 5 and 12 April. The increase coincided with the first weekend of the music festivals. The second weekend started Friday and runs through Sunday.
By Friday, at least two players had to cancel their Coachella sets due to positive COVID-19 tests.
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Bishop Briggs, a Scottish-American singer-songwriter who performed on the Outdoor Theater stage last Friday and impressed audiences with her performance while she was noticeably pregnant, announced on Twitter on Thursday that she has been tested positive and will not be able to to carry out its follow-up. set this Friday.
DJ Satori, whose real name is Djordje Petrovic, announced on Sunday morning that he had tested positive for COVID-19, which made him miss his Weekend 1 Coachella set, and he confirmed on Facebook that he will also have to to miss his Weekend 2. Coachella set, which was scheduled for this Sunday.
Stagecoach country music festival is scheduled for April 29-1. May.
Here is a complete list of confirmed total cases, deaths and cures by city since the start of the pandemic (with weekly changes shown in parentheses) from Tuesday:
- Cathedral City: 12,285 confirmed cases (+13), 150 deaths (+0), 12,094 cures (+19)
- Coachella: 12,823 confirmed cases (+15), 121 deaths (+0), 12,687 cures (+15)
- Desert Hot Springs: 7,743 confirmed cases (+7), 99 deaths (+0), 7,630 cures (+11)
- Indian Wells: 594 confirmed cases (+11), 8 deaths (+0), 568 cures (+9)
- Indio: 22,265 confirmed cases (+34), 279 deaths (+1), 21,910 cures (+33)
- La Quinta: 7,799 confirmed cases (+26), 82 deaths (+0), 7,662 cures (+22)
- Palm Desert: 9,134 confirmed cases (+36), 147 deaths (+0), 8,922 cures (+32)
- Palm Springs: 7,761 confirmed cases (+31), 156 deaths (+0), 7,539 cures (+24)
- Rancho Mirage: 2,549 confirmed cases (+20), 56 deaths (+0), 2,464 cures (+25)
Previous reporting from Shad Powers is included in this report.
Paul Albani-Burgio covers news and the city of Palm Springs. Follow him on Twitter at @albaniburgiop and via email at [email protected]