Alameda County Reports 22 New Coronavirus Cases, No Deaths

Gideon Rubin
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ALAMEDA COUNTY, CA — The Alameda County Public Health Department reported 22 additional cases of the new coronavirus Monday.

The county’s first report since Saturday covers a two-day period and brings the countywide total of COVID-19 cases to 2,874.

The county reported no additional coronavirus-related fatalities, leaving its death toll at 93.

There are currently 88 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Alameda County, of which 44 are being treated in intensive care units.

Here is a breakdown of cases by city/jurisdiction as of Monday:

  • Berkeley LHJ: 86

  • Alameda County LHJ: 2788

  • Under Investigation: 115

  • Homeless: 60

  • No Address: 7

  • Santa Rita Jail: 53

  • Alameda: 45

  • Albany: <10

  • Dublin: 26

  • Emeryville: <10

  • Fremont: 150

  • Hayward: 558

  • Livermore: 48

  • Newark: 84

  • Oakland: 979

  • Piedmont: 13

  • Pleasanton: 58

  • San Leandro: 140

  • Union City: 110

  • Eden Area MAC (Ashland, Cherryland, Hayward Acres, San Lorenzo): 196

  • Castro Valley MAC: 113

  • Fairview MAC: 13

  • Sunol: 0

  • Remainder of County: <10


Elsewhere around the Bay Area, the USS Hornet Sea, Air and Space Museum held an online Memorial Day commemoration event Monday due to the museum's closure during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

The commemoration included videos of past Memorial Day ceremonies aboard the ship.

In Sonoma County, restaurants and other food facilities are now allowed to offer onsite sit-down meals - outdoors. That is one significant change in the Sonoma County Health Officer's public shelter-in-place order, which expands the list of Sonoma County businesses able to operate as part of the county's move into Stage Two of Gov. Gavin Newsom's reopening plan.

The amended order went into effect after midnight Saturday morning.

While most neighborhood parks and recreation facilities in Berkeley remain closed, the city has reopened tennis and pickleball courts for singles play provided social distancing and other measures are used. The sports are now allowed under the revised shelter-in-place order issued May 18 and the city recreation department as of this weekend has begun taking online reservations for court time.

The Santa Cruz County Public Health Division is investigating four distinct clusters of COVID-19 coronavirus cases traced to family gatherings, county officials said.

County public health workers have identified four separate clusters of COVID-19 transmission in the South County region, according to a statement from the Public Health Division.

The investigations are still ongoing, but all known transmissions are associated with close contact between households during family gatherings.

There have been 94,536 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 3,759 coronavirus-related deaths in California as of Monday afternoon according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

The United States has confirmed 1,660,197 COVID-19 cases and 98,184 coronavirus-related fatalities as of Monday afternoon.

Patch editor Gideon Rubin and Bay City News contributed to this report.

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This article originally appeared on the Alameda Patch