Santa Clara County Reports 116 New Coronavirus Cases, 6 Deaths

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CA — The Santa Clara County Public Health Department reported 116 additional coronavirus cases Friday.

The latest report brings the countywide case count to 22,974.

The county reported six additional coronavirus-related fatalities Friday, bringing its COVID-19 death toll to 373.

There were 83 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Santa Clara County as of Friday, of which 27 were being treated in intensive care units.

Elsewhere in the Bay Area and beyond, nearly two-thirds of California parents are uncomfortable sending their children to in-person classes and do not believe schools will be sufficiently safe, according to a poll released Thursday by the California Teachers Association.

The poll, conducted in September by the Washington D.C.-based polling firm Hart Research Associates, asked 1,257 voters in the state and 527 parents of public-school students for their feelings about California's coronavirus pandemic reopening process and the resumption of in-person classes in some areas of the state.

Approximately eight out of 10 voters in the state believe the pandemic is still a 'serious problem,' with a 54 percent majority believing the worst of the pandemic is still on the horizon.

With that in mind, 62 percent of parents said they would not be comfortable sending their children to school now.

Oakland's Latinx community and especially those who identify as Mayan Latinx are still being hit hard by COVID-19, according to results of testing last month.

At a news briefing Friday morning in Oakland's Fruitvale district, Mayor Libby Schaaf and other community leaders spoke about the results, which they said were alarming and sadly not surprising.

Twenty-nine adults and 10 children tested positive and 78 adults and six children tested positive for an antibody, indicating that they once had the virus.

"Unfortunately, this community is highly impacted," Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan said at the briefing.

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There have been 869,825 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 16,856 coronavirus-related deaths in California as of Friday afternoon according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

The United States had 8,039,642 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 218,448 coronavirus-related fatalities as of Friday afternoon.

There have been 39,169,713 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 1,101,468 deaths reported globally as of Friday afternoon.

— Bay City News contributed to this report

This article originally appeared on the Los Gatos Patch