San Diego County Reports 662 New COVID-19 Infections And 11 Deaths

By Elizabeth Ireland, Times of San Diego

February 26, 2021

The San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency reported 662 new cases of coronavirus Friday and 11 more deaths from the pandemic disease.

Friday’s data increased the cumulative totals in the county to 259,644 cases and 3,271 deaths.

Of 15,987 tests reported by the county, 4% returned positive. The 14-day rolling average remained at 4.4%.

Hospitalizations decreased from 569 on Thursday with 184 people in intensive care beds to 549 hospitalized and 175 in ICU beds Friday. One month ago, there were 1,408 people hospitalized with COVID-19, 408 of whom were in the ICU. There are 53 available, staffed ICU beds in the county.

There were three community outbreaks reported Friday, part of 29 in the past week tied to 116 cases.

— City News Service contributed to this article

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