51 Yucaipa Nursing Home Residents Test Positive For Coronavirus

YUCAIPA, CA — The number of residents and employees at a Yucaipa nursing home who have tested positive for coronavirus has risen sharply, San Bernardino public health officials announced Tuesday.

Fifty-one residents and six employees at Cedar Mountain Post Acute Rehabilitation are positive for COVID-19, officials said, and more tests are still being processed. Two residents at the facility have died.

The numbers are a sharp increase over Saturday's figures that showed 12 of the elderly residents at the facility tested positive for COVID-19 and one had woman died — an 89-year-old woman with underlying health issues. She died Thursday, officials said.

"This is the first instance we have had in our county of a concentrated COVID-19 outbreak," Acting County Health Officer Dr. Erin Gustafson said in a statement over the weekend. "The county will do everything within its ability and authority to minimize the tragedy this pandemic has the potential to create in our communities."

As of Tuesday afternoon, San Bernardino County has 125 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and four disease-related deaths.

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