Santa Clara County Reports 103 New Coronavirus Cases, 4 Deaths

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CA — The Santa Clara County Public Health Department reported 103 additional coronavirus cases Tuesday.

The latest report brings the countywide case count to 23,458.

The county reported four additional coronavirus-related fatalities Tuesday, bringing its COVID-19 death toll to 382.

There were 88 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Santa Clara County as of Tuesday, of which 23 were being treated in intensive care units.

Elsewhere in the Bay Area and beyond, as much as 90 percent of Marin County residents are still susceptible to contracting the novel coronavirus, the county's public health officer said Tuesday.

Marin County's rate of new cases has slowed in recent weeks, allowing the county to move into a less-restrictive tier of the state's pandemic reopening process.

As of Tuesday, 4,791 cases have been confirmed in Marin County, which does not include the 2,239 cases that have been confirmed at San Quentin State Prison. Many of those cases were confirmed during the state's summer wave of infections.

Contra Costa County health officials, already working to set up more COVID-19 testing sites in parts of the county hardest hit by the virus, are now reaching out with a short video interview of a Concord man who has been battling the virus.

County Health Director Anna Roth told the county Board of Supervisors Tuesday that the hope is the video -- shown at Tuesday's board meeting -- will help counter what she called a COVID-19 "stigma."

The video features Jose, who lives in Concord with extended family members of a wide range of ages, perhaps 40 years old, discussing his recent bout with the coronavirus. He said he didn't take the virus seriously before he contracted it, and -- in Spanish, with subtitles -- said it's still "extremely hard" to talk about. –

California's theme parks and outdoor sports stadiums can begin selling tickets to fans and customers once again with modifications, the state's top public health official said Tuesday.

Both theme parks and stadiums will be allowed to resume selling tickets, provided that they sit in a county that has moved into Tier 3, or the orange tier, of the state's coronavirus pandemic reopening plan.

"We've worked hard ... with our partners, industry partners, labor partners, to come up with something that we believe at this time really supports the blueprint that we have put out, the slow, stringent approach," state Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said.

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There have been 883,076 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 17,015 coronavirus-related deaths in California as of Tuesday afternoon according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

The United States had 8,124,211 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 220,944 coronavirus-related fatalities as of Tuesday afternoon.

There have been 40,557,757 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 1,123,767 deaths reported globally as of Tuesday afternoon.

— Bay City News contributed to this report