Sunday marked the 19th consecutive day that more than 600 new cases were reported. Of the total number of cases in the county, 4,603 — or 5.7% of overall cases — have required hospitalization and 1,016 patients — 1.3% — had to be admitted to an intensive care unit.
Nine community outbreaks were confirmed Sunday. Over the previous seven days, 85 community outbreaks were confirmed. A community outbreak is defined as three or more COVID-19 cases in a setting and in people of different households over the past 14 days.
San Diego County fell deeper into the most restrictive, purple, tier of the state’s four-tiered reopening plan Tuesday, with an unadjusted 21.5 new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people. Even with an adjusted rate of 13.1 per 100,000 due to significant testing increases by local health authorities, that number far exceeds the strictest tier’s baseline of seven daily cases per 100,000.
The testing positivity percentage is 3.1%, placing it in the less restrictive, orange, tier for that metric.
The county’s health equity metric, which looks at the testing positivity for areas with the lowest healthy conditions, is 9.3% and is in the purple tier. This metric does not move counties to more restrictive tiers but is required to advance to a less restrictive tier.
