COVID-19 case update for Lake Tahoe area counties

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - There have been two new cases of COVID-19 in El Dorado County today, one in the Greater Placerville area and the other in the Lake Tahoe region. Both are male, one aged 18-49 and the other in the 50-64 age range.

There have now been 80 cases of COVID-19 in the county. Currently there is one in the ICU and another hospitalized (from which region is not shared). There are currently 23 active cases.

To date, there have been 5,672 tests conducted, 174 of them Tuesday. There were no reported new recoveries.

There have been 28 cases in the Lake Tahoe area (including South Lake Tahoe, Meyers, Strawberry, and Tahoma).

Pollock Pines, Camino, Kyburz - 2 (Zip codes 95726, 95720, 95709)
El Dorado Hills - 19 (Zip Code 95762)
Diamond Springs, El Dorado - 10 (Zip codes 95623, 95619)
North County - 3 (Zip codes 95664, 95614, 95651, 95635, 95634, 95633)
Greater Placerville - 7 (Zip codes 95643, 95613, 95667)
Cameron Park, Shingle Springs - 7 (Zip codes 95672, 95682)
South County - 4 (Zip codes 95684, 95656, 95629, 95666, 95636)
Lake Tahoe region - 28 (Zip codes 96150, 96142, 95735, 95721, 96151, 96152, 96154, 96155, 96156, 96157, 96158, 95646)

Quad-Counties - Carson City, Douglas, Storey, Lyon

Carson City Health and Human Services (CCHHS) is reporting two new positive cases and three additional recoveries of COVID-19 in the Quad-County region. This brings the total number of cases to 176, with 128 recoveries and four deaths, 44 cases remain active.

The new cases are:
• A male Lyon County resident under the age of 18
• A male Douglas County resident in his 60’s

Carson City Health and Human Services is working to identify close risk contacts to prevent further spread of the disease. Due to medical privacy requirements and to protect their identity, no further information about the cases will be released.

Carson City
-90 Total
-28 Active
-58 Recovered
-4 Deaths

Douglas County
-29 Total
-4 Active
-25 Recovered

Lyon County
-56 Total
-12 Active
-44 Recovered

Storey County
-1 Total
-0 Active
-1 Recovery

TOTAL
-176 Total Cases
-44 Active
-126 Recovered
-4 Deaths
-4 Hospitalizations

Gender and age break down of the cases by county is available at https://gethealthycarsoncity.org/novel-coronavirus-2019/. Statewide numbers can be found at the Nevada Health Response website (nvhealthresponse.nv.gov/).

Washoe County

The Regional Information Center is reporting 54 new cases of COVID-19 in Washoe County and nine recoveries. The active case count is at its highest point with 604.

Total COVID-19 cases in Washoe County: 1,459 (+54 from 5/25)
Deaths: 54 (+0)
Recoveries: 801 (+9)
Active cases: 604 (+45)
Currently hospitalized: 63 (+3)
Cases who have discharged from hospital: 121 (+0)

There have been 21 cases in Incline Village and 1 in Crystal Bay in Lake Tahoe.

Of the 54 positive cases, 18 are from the homeless population. The results were from testing done on May 14. The delay in result notification comes from the out-of-state laboratory that was contracted to perform the tests.

The Incident Management Team (IMT), which procured the contract with the vendor to increase COVID-19 testing in Washoe County, agreed to a turnaround time of 72 hours. Due to this discrepancy, the IMT has ceased testing via this vendor and is working with our partners to replace those test kits with ones that the test results can be turned around in an appropriate time so that we can continue to distribute those test kits to health care workers, first responders, long-term care facilities and other vulnerable populations.

Total number of COVID-19 tests performed in Washoe County as of May 26, 2020 -
21,885 (+3,430 since 5/21)

Placer County

There have been four new cases of confirmed COVID-19 in Placer County since Monday.

188 cases with 13 (+4) in the Lake Tahoe area
Hospitalized - 5 (-1) with 3 (+3) in ICU
Deaths - 9 (+0)
Negative test results - 9,966 (+244)

Alpine County

There have been no changes to the County's numbers since May 20.

Number Patients Tested - 13
Negative - 11
Pending - 0
Positive - 2 (one a non-Alpine County Resident)
Hospitalized - 0
Deaths - 0
Recovered - 1

Nevada County

There were no new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nevada County Tuesday.

Confirmed cases - 41 with 29 in the East County (Truckee)
Recovered - 40 (+0)
Active Cases - 0
Deaths - 1
Patients tested - 2.857 (+668)