Santa Clara County Reports 190 New Coronavirus Cases, 2 Deaths

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CA — The Santa Clara County Public Health Department reported 190 additional coronavirus cases Friday.

The latest announcement brings the countywide COVID-19 case count to 8,719.

The county reported two additional coronavirus-related fatalities Friday, bringing its COVID-19 death toll to 183.

Elsewhere around the Bay Area and beyond, Alameda County Sheriff's Deputy Oscar Rocha died at 6:45 p.m. Thursday evening due to complications from COVID-19, sheriff's officials said. "He put up a courageous fight to the end and will never be forgotten," according to sheriff's officials.

BART officials told the agency's Board of Directors Thursday that the Bay Area's COVID-19 resurgence has BART already falling behind on its revenue projections for fiscal year 2021, which began July 1. Board Director Liz Ames said BART could consider finding additional funding by taking out loans or reducing daily service, but the state of the agency is dire in either scenario. "I don't see how BART is going to survive," she said. "I mean I don't want to say bankruptcy but this is a fiscal emergency."

While fans will not be allowed at Oakland Athletics games this season due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, RingCentral Coliseum will still feature one of the team's most famous former employees: actor Tom Hanks. A Concord native, Tom Hanks got his first job selling concessions to fans at the coliseum in his late teens. The A's said Friday that they plan to play audio recordings during games of Hanks hawking peanuts, hot dogs, programs and other ballpark fare along with traditional stadium sounds of cheering fans, drums, vuvuzelas and chants of "let's go Oakland."

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There were 434,443 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 8,243 coronavirus-related deaths in California as of Friday afternoon according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

The United States had 4,103,371 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 145,261 coronavirus-related fatalities as of Friday afternoon.

There have been 15,656,042 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 636,848 deaths reported globally as of Friday afternoon.

— Bay City News contributed to this report.

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