"Our case rate is amongst the lowest of all the states it remains one of the lowest nationwide," she said.
County's improved COVID-19 metrics are also a reflection of a statewide trend, Park said. "But at this point, it's looking very good using the data we have now." However, there's always a possibility that we will be receiving more death certificates, and that that will have to be updated," Park told the board at its meeting Tuesday. "It appears that in the last couple of weeks that we've had no deaths. Maggie Park reported the decrease in death rates earlier this week to the Board of Supervisors, as well as continued improvement in the county's testing and positivity rates. No deaths from COVID-19 were reported by hospitals Thursday, and EMS has since opted not to continue to send out its daily weekday update.Ĭounty Public Health Officer Dr. The county had also gone more than a week without reporting any new deaths from the virus until Wednesday, when the Emergency Medical Services Agency reported two patient deaths in the prior 24 hours ending Wednesday morning. Last week, the county was allowed to move into the orange tier of the state's color-coded reopening blueprint. Overall COVID-19 metrics in San Joaquin County have greatly improved after the county spent weeks at a standstill, unable to move from red tier to the less restrictive orange tier as its rate for newly confirmed cases leveled off and stalled at numbers slightly too high for the state to allow more restrictions to be eased. That means Newsom retains his authority to alter or suspend state laws indefinitely, either until he decides to end the emergency declaration or the Democratic-majority state Legislature does it for him. While much of public life is officially set to return to normal next week, the state will still be under a statewide declaration of emergency. Those who are vaccinated will also be allowed to go without masks in most outdoor and indoor settings. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Friday ending California's stay-at-home home order and its various amendments.Īll businesses listed in California's reopening blueprint will be allowed to fully reopen Tuesday with no social distancing or maximum capacity requirements. More: 0 deaths from COVID-19 reported in San Joaquin County for more than a week Most recently, California has relied on a color-coded reopening blueprint that has allowed counties to slowly reopen based on several metrics, such as testing, intensive care unit capacity and average cases per 100,000 population. Lockdown orders in the state were eased or amended every few months for more than a year, sometimes seesawing back and forth in restrictiveness when newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 and hospitalizations from the virus either went up or down. The state has implemented some of the strictest lockdown regulations in the country throughout the pandemic, beginning with a statewide stay-at-home order last March, which left schools and many businesses shuttered or operating with drastically reduced capacities and services. View Gallery: Photos: Homeless COVID-19 vaccinations continue in San Joaquin CountyĬalifornia is scheduled to officially reopen Tuesday after largely being shut down for more than a year to slow the spread of COVID-19.
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