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Thirteen San Joaquin County residents died from COVID-19 on Thursday.

That pushed the death toll since mid-March to 738.

There are now 315 COVID patients in the seven hospitals within the county. Active positive cases are at 6,727 among the county’s 767,000  residents. Not everyone that tests positive becomes ill.

Stockton as of Wednesday had the highest number of cases with 23,883 at a rate of 74.9 per 1,000 residents. Based on positive cases per 1,000 residents following Stockton is Lodi with 4,930 cases or 72.3 cases per 1,000, Escalon with 506 cases or 67.6 per 1,000, Lathrop with 1,767 cases or 65.8 per 1,000, Manteca with 5,157 cases or 60.8 per 1,000, Ripon with 921 cases or 57.8 per 1,000, Tracy with 5,463 cases or 56.9 per 1,000, and the unincorporated areas of the county with 9,654 cases or 56.7 cases per 1,000.

ICU capacity countywide is now at 149 percent. The peak ICU use was at 178 percent in late December.

San Joaquin County — along with the rest of the 10-county San Joaquin Valley region — cannot slip back into the four colored tiers that allow for less restrictive lockdown measures until ICU capacity is back down to 85 percent.

Moving back into the purple tier would allow outdoor dining to resume and for businesses such as barber shops and hair stylists to reopen with restrictions.

Gov. Newsom had extended the initial lockdown for the San Joaquin Valley region until Monday, Jan. 18. Based on current data he is likely to extend it another three weeks. until a week before Valentines’ Day.

There were 148 ICU patients as of Thursday with 90 or 61 percent of them being COVID patients.

Overall there were 813 hospital beds in use with 315 or 39 percent occupied by COVID patients. Hospitals are at 83 percent capacity.

To date there have been 55,580 cases in the county since the pandemic started. The number of people that have recovered is at 48,115.

Statewide there have been 2,816,969 confirmed cases of COVID-19 resulting in 31,654 deaths as of Thursday. That reflected a 1.8 percent jump in deaths over the previous day due to 552 dying due to the coronavirus.

 

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com