Given the Easter weekend, the County Agency for Health and Human Services wants to remind San Diegans to celebrate the holiday safely. While the number of COVID-19 cases remains well below the December and January highs, it is too early to let your guard down and attend meetings without any precautions.
Unvaccinated San Diego residents should continue to adhere to current California Department of Public Health guidelines and keep meetings small and short. Assemblies should not comprise more than three total households.
Participants should wear a cover face when not eating and follow social distancing practices. While indoor meetings are allowed, outdoor meetings are recommended.
According to new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, those who are fully vaccinated can begin to relax restrictions and attend meetings with other people who are fully vaccinated.
“While the CDC’s new guidelines state that it is safe for fully vaccinated people to gather indoors or outdoors without covering their faces, we know that currently only about one in five San Diegans aged 16 and over are immunized, ”said Wilma J. Wooten, MD, MPH, county public health officer. “I encourage everyone to follow best practices for their situation to celebrate this holiday safely and to keep us on track to return to all the activities we enjoy.”
Easter and Vaccination Testing
Several county testing and vaccination sites will be closed on Sunday for the Easter holiday. The following sites will remain open, with modified times:
- Non-scheduled test sites at Cal State San Marcos and Tubman Chavez Community Center will be open with condensed hours from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- Vaccination sites at North Coastal Live Well Center, Lemon Grove Community Center and South Region Public Health Center will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
- The Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center and Borderview YMCA vaccination sites will be closed for Easter.
Vaccination progress:
- Nearly 1.89 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine were delivered to the region and nearly 1.76 million were registered as administered. This number includes both county residents and those working in San Diego County.
- Of those vaccinated so far, more than 586,000 residents of the county, or 21.8% of San Diegans aged 16 and over, are completely immunized.
- In total, over 975,000 county residents received at least one shot of the two-dose vaccine. This represents 36.3% of those eligible.
- Those who receive the Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine are added to the total of fully vaccinated San Diegans.
- The difference between the doses given and those used in a vaccine is about what is expected to be given in the next seven days and the doses to be entered into the registration system.
- More information about the distribution of vaccines can be found on the county dashboard. For details on currently eligible groups and vaccination opportunities, visit www.vaccinationsuperstation.com.
State values:
- The state-adjusted, state-calculated case rate in San Diego is currently 4.9 cases per 100,000 residents. The county is in the red level.
- Currently, the percentage of test positivity is 2.1%, placing the county in level 3 or Orange level.
- The value of the county’s health equity, which analyzes the positivity of testing for the areas with the lowest health conditions, is 2.7% and is also in the Orange or Tier 3 level.
- While two of the three values qualify the county for the Orange level or level 3, the state assigns the counties to the more restrictive level.
- The California Department of Public Health evaluates counties on a weekly basis. The next report is scheduled for Tuesday, April 6.
Community outbreaks:
- Two new outbreaks of the community were confirmed on April 1, one in a restaurant / bar and one in a commercial setting.
- In the last seven days (March 26 to April 1), 10 community outbreaks have been confirmed.
- The number of Community outbreaks remains above the trigger of seven or more in seven days.
- A community outbreak is defined as three or more cases of COVID-19 in a setting and in people from different households in the last 14 days.
Testing:
- 18,435 tests were reported to the county on April 1, and the percentage of new positive cases was 3%.
- The average percentage of 14 days of positive cases is 2.3%. The target is less than 8.0%.
- The daily average of 7 days of tests is 12,500.
Cases, hospitalizations and admissions to the ICU:
- 496 COVID-19 cases were reported to the county on March 31. The total for the region is now 271,035.
- 14,855 or 5.5% of all cases required hospitalization.
- 1,651 or 0.6% of all cases and 11.1% of hospitalized cases had to be admitted to an intensive care unit.
Deaths:
- 13 new deaths from COVID-19 were reported on April 1. The total of the region is 3,568.
- Four women and nine men died between January 11 and April 1.
- Of the people who died, three were 80 years old or older, seven were 70 years old, two were 60 years old and one was 50 years old.
- They all had underlying medical conditions.
More information:
More detailed summaries of the data found on County website coronavirus-sd.com are updated daily around 17:00.