Fifteen confirmed cases of COVID-19 in El Dorado County
Submitted by paula on Mon, 03/30/2020 - 4:01pm
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The El Dorado County Health & Human Services has announced three new positive cases of COVID-19 in the county, bringing the total to 15. The County does no update figures on weekends so the three new cases are since Friday.
As of March 30, 2020, the virus has been detected on both the West Slope and South Lake Tahoe.
To date, 565 tests have been given with 450 coming back as negative and just over 100 are still pending.
At the state level in California, there are 5,763 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 135 deaths. There have been no deaths in El Dorado County.
As of Friday afternoon, there have been 83,800 tests conducted in California. At least 27,251 results have been received and another 56,550 are pending. This includes the latest numbers California has received from commercial, private and academic labs, including Quest, LabCorp, Kaiser, University of California and Stanford, and the 22 state and county health labs currently testing.
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