Santa Barbara County Public Health Department officials on Sunday reported a significant drop in both the new numbers of COVID-19 hospitalizations and patients being treated in hospital intensive-care units.
There were 132 coronavirus patients in local hospitals, according to the county. The last time daily hospitalizations rates were that low was Dec. 30, when 129 patients were hospitalized.
Of Sunday’s patients, there were 37 in ICUs, the county’s lowest daily number since Jan. 2 when the number was 36.
COVID-19 patients occupied more than 48 percent of the 76 staffed adult ICU beds available in the county, according to the county’s community data dashboard.
The county’s ICU availability decreased to 18.4 percent on Sunday, down from 19.7 percent Saturday.
There were 1,083 still infectious, or active, cases countywide on Sunday, according to the Public Health Department.
According to the online status report released Sunday, the department said an error occurred in the number of daily active cases Saturday.
“Due to a change in CalREDIE, active/recovered numbers were misreported yesterday (Saturday),” the department said.
The California Reportable Disease Information Exchange (CalREDIE) is the infectious disease reporting system that the state Department of Public Health has implemented.
The updated status report shows that 1,065 people were still infectious on Saturday.
Another 187 new positive cases were reported.
To date, there have been 29,941 confirmed coronavirus-positive cases in Santa Barbara County and 336 virus-related deaths, according to the county Public Health Department.
The county reported its first positive coronavirus case in March 2020, and the first local death in April.
Of Sunday’s new cases, 35 were in Santa Barbara, 34 in Santa Maria, 22 in both Lompoc and the Montecito-Summerland-Carpinteria area, 18 in Isla Vista, 16 in Goleta, nine in the Santa Ynez Valley, seven in North County unincorporated area and Guadalupe, six in the Goleta Valley and Gaviota area, and four in Orcutt.
Geographic locations had not been released for 14 new cases.
No new cases were reported in the Lompoc Federal Prison Complex on Sunday, according to authorities.
The county has averaged about 198.6 COVID-19 cases a day over the past week, a drop of more than 21 percent from the previous week.
A total of more than 438,700 coronavirus tests have been administered in Santa Barbara County, according to Sunday’s daily status report. There were 2,415 COVID-19 tests reported in the county Sunday.
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