Riverside County on pace to reopen more indoor businesses next month – Press Enterprise

Riverside County May Reopen More Indoor Business Next Month Coronavirus According to state data released on Tuesday, February 23, the numbers used to determine when such operations can be resumed continue to decline, as they did in the past few weeks.

The county-adjusted case rate for the week ending February 13 was 16.6, the positive rate was 7.6%, the index of health inequalities, or the positive rate in socio-economically disadvantaged communities was 8.3%.

Each number is an improvement from last week, but Riverside County’s positive rate is the only one within the boundaries to ease restrictions on indoor business.

To advance the state’s color-coded hierarchical system, the county has a 7-day adjusted case rate of 4-7 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, a positive rate of 5% to 8%, and a health equity rate of 2. Required for a week in a row. Between 5.3% and 8%.

When these benchmarks are met, the county moves from the most restrictive purple layer to the red layer, which means a widespread risk of infection, the substantial risk layer.

Red-tier counties can resume more indoor businesses.

Hospitalizations continue to improve in Riverside County.

As of Monday, February 22, 407 patients were fighting the disease in a county hospital. The last time the number of COVID-19 patients increased from one day to the next was January 15.

According to state and county public health authorities, the latest figures are:

Riverside County

Infected (number: Total 288,541, 719 increase from Monday, average number of reports per day last week 279

Dead (number: Total 3,695, 31 increase from Monday, average number of reports per day last week 19.6

Hospital survey: 407 confirmed and 49 suspicious patients admitted on Monday. Twenty-one of 21 institutions reported, including 112 confirmed and 8 suspicious patients in the ICU. The number of confirmed cases has decreased by 28.2% from a week ago.