San Diego County Government: San Diego County COVID-19 Update – 10-27-2021

Here is this week's COVID-19 update from the County Health and Human Services Agency with data through Oct. 26, 2021.

Posted Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 7:30 am PT

José A. Álvarez

2021-10-27

Here is this week’s COVID-19 update from the County Health and Human Services Agency with data through Oct. 26, 2021.

Doses administered: Over 5.03 million.
Received at least one shot: Almost 2.53 million or 90.2% of San Diegans 12 and older are partially vaccinated.
Fully vaccinated: Over 2.28 million or 81.5%.
More vaccination information can be found at coronavirus-sd.com/vaccine.

29 new deaths were reported since the last report on Oct. 20, 2021. The region’s total is 4,207.
21 men and eight women between Feb. 10, 2021 and Oct. 26, 2021.
Two were 80 years of age or older, six were in their 70s, 12 were in their 60s, four were in their 50s and five were in their 40s.
One of the people who died was fully vaccinated and 28 were not fully vaccinated.
23 had underlying medical conditions, three did not and three had medical history pending.

549 COVID-19 cases were reported to the County on Oct. 26, 2021. The region’s total is now 369,361.
3,691 cases were reported in the past week (Oct. 20 through Oct. 26) compared to 3,105 cases the previous week (Oct. 13 through Oct.19).
In the past 30 days (Sept. 27 to Oct. 26), there were 288 COVID-19 hospitalizations; 273 people were not fully vaccinated and 15 were fully vaccinated.
San Diego County’s case rate per 100,000 residents is 13.6 overall, 7.5 for fully vaccinated people and 23.1 for not fully vaccinated San Diegans.
19,703 tests were reported to the County on Oct. 26, and the percentage of new positive cases was 2.8%.
The 14-day rolling percentage of positive cases among tests is 2.4%.

25 new community outbreaks were confirmed in the past seven days (Oct. 20 through Oct. 26): 10 in TK-12 grade school settings, eight in business settings, four in a government setting, one in a retail setting, one in a grocery setting and one in an emergency services setting.
The community outbreaks trigger is more than seven in a 7-day period.

Data updates to the County’s coronavirus-sd.com website are published around 5 p.m.

This press release was produced by the San Diego County Government. The views expressed here are the author’s own.