Santa Clara County Reports 439 New Coronavirus Cases, 1 Death

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CA — The Santa Clara County Public Health Department reported 439 additional coronavirus cases Monday.

The latest report brings the countywide case count to 31,103.

The county reported one additional coronavirus-related fatality Monday, bringing its COVID-19 death toll to 464.

There were 191 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Santa Clara County as of Monday, of which 53 were being treated in intensive care units.

Elsewhere around the Bay Area and beyond, Golden Gate Fields will extend its suspension of live racing through the end of the month due a COVID-19 outbreak among the Berkeley horse racing track's staff, the track said in a statement this week.

Golden Gate Fields originally announced on Nov. 13 that it would close for one week because two dozen cases had been confirmed at the track since Oct. 30.

While the track did not disclose how many staff members have now tested positive for the virus, a report from the Los Angeles Times placed the number around 100.

COVID-19 testing capacity at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds will be doubled over the next month to accommodate the county's recent rise in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations, the county said Friday.

The fairgrounds testing facility, which can accommodate up to 2,500 testing appointments per day, will be ramped up to 3,000 appointments next week and 5,000 by mid-December, according to the county.

The push to increase the county's testing capacity comes as Santa Clara County's test positivity rate has doubled since late October, when it sat around 1.7 percent.

Until the beginning of November, the county's rate of positive cases hadn't been above 3 percent since the end of August.

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There have been 1,128,219 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 18,753 coronavirus-related deaths in California as of Monday night according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

The United States had 12,414,292 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 257,651 coronavirus-related fatalities as of Monday night.

There have been 59,128,645 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 1,395,658 deaths reported globally as of Monday night.

— Bay City News contributed to this report