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Riverside County does not update numbers on weekends, as of 3 pm Friday, officials have confirmed:
- 8,777 people have officially tested positive for COVID-19. 474 people have been reported positive in the last 48 hours.
- 355 people are confirmed to have died in the county from the coronavirus. This number includes the reported deaths of 10 people in the last 48 hours.
June 5 — #COVID19 in the #CoachellaValley (+ from WEDNESDAY):
2,059 confirmed cases (+182)
76 deaths (+6)I’ve never seen a surge in new cases as large as this.
451 new cases over the last 7 days, smashing Wednesday’s record of 331. pic.twitter.com/ZZsMqnwVnx
— Kevin Duncliffe (@kevinduncliffe) June 5, 2020
64 new cases in Indio over those two days. 58 in Coachella. 21 in Cathedral City.
— Kevin Duncliffe (@kevinduncliffe) June 5, 2020
As of 3 pm Saturday, San Bernardino County has confirmed:
- 6,040 people have officially tested positive for COVID-19.
- 224 people are confirmed to have died in the county from the coronavirus.
As of 4 pm Saturday, the State of California has confirmed:
- 128,397 people have official tested positive for COVID-19.
- 4,604 people are confirmed to have died in the state of CA from the coronavirus.
#Coronavirus pandemic has killed 922 people in the US in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll in the country to 1,09,042 according to Johns Hopkins University: AFP news agency
Track #COVID19 latest updates here https://t.co/Nb0eWf5Wvu— Economic Times (@EconomicTimes) June 6, 2020
The numbers increase everyday.
They are more than just numbers.
They are people we have lost:
Bruce Johnson died of #coronavirus at 60. “He had a difficult life, but Bruce never let anything get him down. He persevered and rallied through all his problems.”
https://t.co/BtziwYiCvM— Bruce Bourgoine (@BruceBourgoine) June 6, 2020
My latest for @PittsburghPG: I wrote the obituary for Ginny Frizzi, a tireless Pittsburgh journalism advocate who died of COVID-19 Monday.
Thanks to @bobmayo, @spjpgh, @PghPressClub and more for talking to me about this amazing womanhttps://t.co/5PFNdVaHk8
— Joshua Axelrod (@jaxel222) June 4, 2020
California set a new single-day record for confirmed COVID-19 cases on Friday, with a reported 3,603 new coronavirus cases and 83 new deaths. The number of new reported cases has been climbing at an alarming clip in recent weeks. Friday’s record shattered the previous single-day high of 3,131 cases, which was set on Monday.
Palm Springs has ordered businesses in the city to require signs at their entrances outlining mask and social distancing guidelines. The orders calls for masks in the following situations:
- Waiting in line to enter a store
- Shopping in a store
- Picking up food or in-person dining at a restaurant, except while seated at a table or bar
- Public transportation (or waiting for it to pick you up)
- Inside a taxi or rideshare vehicle
- Seeking health care
- Working at a job that interacts with the public
- It is encouraged to put a face covering on children over age 2 when they are around others and closer than six feet. Any child wearing a face covering must be supervised by an adult
Face coverings are not required in these settings:
Riverside County has seen more testing in District 4 that in other districts in the county. Per capita rates in District 4, which spans from Desert Hot Springs east to the Arizona, was at 6.9% the week of May 25, while other districts testing rates were between 3.1% and 4%. Officials believe the district four is higher as it was an early hotbed for the coronavirus.
The CDC released a report on Friday in which they asked 502 people if they knew about disinfectants and asked how those subjects were using such products to stop the spread of coronavirus. Of the 502 people, 4% (20 people!) admitted they’d drank or gargled household agents including bleach. But that’s not all, a staggering 18% of participants confessed they’d applied cleaning agents to their skin. Nearly 10% inhaled fumes from potentially toxic household disinfectants. “These practices pose a risk of severe tissue damage and corrosive injury and should be strictly avoided,” the report said.
President Donald Trump toured a Maine facility that makes medical swabs used for coronavirus testing on Friday. Of course, he did not wear a mask, and now the swab company says that the swabs manufactured in the background during his visit have to be thrown in the trash.
Trump visits the coronavirus swab production line in Maine, without a mask, and the manufacturer says it will now have to throw away the day’s output. https://t.co/gq1lo4LD9t
— Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) June 6, 2020
San Manuel Casino has announced it will reopen on June 15:
This was the scene in Las Vegas this weekend:
Las Vegas is officially back. pic.twitter.com/EI3nXs2e5w
— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) June 6, 2020
Finally…
This made me smile ? pic.twitter.com/lOzX4azljx
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) June 4, 2020
That’s all for this evening. Stay safe. Stay smart. Stay home.
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