Del Norte County Moves to Purple Tier

Wednesday, 25 November 2020, 9:27 pm Kym Kemp 2 comments

Press release from Del Norte County Public Health:

There have been forty (40) positive cases of COVID-19 reported to Public Health since the last update on 11/20/2020. The level of transmission of COVID-19 is now widespread in our community and we have officially been moved into the Purple Tier. The amount of cases we have had in the last two weeks and the amount of contacts generated from each case has been overwhelming to our Public Health system. We had to make the decision to follow up with patients or to focus on our data and some of the specifics of the cases will need to be added at a later date.

We at Public Health continue to reach out to cases and contacts. We would like to urge anyone who has received a positive COVID-19 test or is a close contact of a positive case to visit our website at www.covid19.dnco.org to find out what they should do next. A large majority of these cases were linked to gatherings, so we would like to remind everyone to be as safe as possible during this holiday weekend. Small actions can have a large effect–not just on a few people, but on our entire community.

New confirmed COVID-19 cases: 40

Current active cases: 93

Current Hospitalizations: 0

Total tests: 10398

Total confirmed cases: 313

Total inactive cases: 220

Total hospitalizations: 5

Total deaths: 1

Transmission

  Contact to a Known Case: 91 cases (33%)

  Household Case: 72 cases (26%)

  Travel-Acquired: 34 cases (12%)

  Community Transmission: 64 cases (23%)

  Under Investigation: 15 cases (6%)

Gender

  Males: 161 cases (52%)

  Females: 150 cases (48%)

Age Range

  0-17 years: 51 cases (16%)

  18-49 years: 192 cases (61%)

  50-64 years: 53 cases (17%)

  65+ years: 17 cases (6%)

Mean Age: 36

Symptomatic Cases: 192 cases (71%)

Asymptomatic Cases: 80 cases (29%)

Passive Case Finding: 169 cases (61%)

Active Case Finding: 106 cases (39%)

For more information about these numbers please visit our COVID-19 Website at http://www.covid19.dnco.org