Santa Clara County Reports 124 New Coronavirus Cases, 4 Deaths

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CA — The Santa Clara County Public Health Department reported 124 additional coronavirus cases Tuesday.

The latest report brings the countywide case count to 17,465.

The county reported four additional coronavirus-related fatalities Tuesday, leaving its COVID-19 death toll at 248.

There were 131 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Santa Clara County as of Tuesday, of which 43 were being treated in intensive care units.

Elsewhere around the Bay Area and beyond, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday to appropriate nearly $12 million to the county Emergency Operations Center's response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

The board voted to increase appropriations to the EOC by $11.7 million, with roughly $4.88 million coming from the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act and roughly $6.88 million coming from the county's cannabis tax revenue fund.

The board also approved an additional $250,000 for the county EOC to operate the Food Bank for Monterey County.

That funding also came from the cannabis tax revenue fund, according to county officials.

San Francisco has been taken off the state's COVID-19 watchlist as the number of new daily cases citywide is slightly declining, Mayor London Breed announced Tuesday -- the same day several businesses began operating outdoors.

The city was placed on the list back in July when it was seeing more than 100 new COVID-19 cases daily. Currently the city is seeing about 75 new cases daily, which although remaining somewhat high, allows the city to move forward with the reopening of some businesses under state guidelines.

On Tuesday, the city began allowing personal services like haircuts, massages and nail services to resume in outdoor settings, while others like tattoo art, facials and waxing remain on hold for the time being.

Tuesday is full of uncertainty for thousands of renters across the North Bay and beyond as a statewide temporary ban on evictions expires at midnight.

In Marin County alone, Superior Court officials have suggested that as a result, 100 to 200 unlawful detainers -- which initiate the court process to evict a tenant -- will be processed in September starting Wednesday.

That's up from about 20 a month in pre-COVID-19 times, said Lucie Hollingsworth, senior attorney of the housing unit at Legal Aid of Marin.

"We are definitely looking at mass

displacement," Hollingsworth said.

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There have been 715,104 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 13,110 coronavirus-related deaths in California as of Tuesday afternoon according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

The United States had 6,071,971 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 184,589 coronavirus-related fatalities as of Tuesday afternoon.

There have been 25,605,533 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 853,290 deaths reported globally as of Tuesday afternoon.

— Bay City News contributed to this report

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