The Coachella Valley Economic Partnership (CVEP) announced it will be providing Coachella Valley small businesses with more than $1 million in personal protective equipment (PPE). The cost-free PPE will go to small businesses in need all throughout the Coachella Valley. The program, called CVEP’s “Million Mask Giveaway,” is made possible by the California Governor’s Office
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Case Changes Riverside County set another record-high number of coronavirus cases, reporting nearly 11,000 cases on Tuesday. A county spokesman said the sharp rise, which is the largest single-day increase since the start of the pandemic, is due in part to a backlog of tests being processed. 10,949 new cases were added since Monday, bringing
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Dr. Ghaly, California Health and Human Services Secretary gives an update on the State’s response to the coronavirus, current case rates and hospitalizations and the upcoming vaccine. WATCH BELOW:
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California is expected to get 327,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine in the coming weeks. “The first round of vaccines will go to our frontline healthcare workers who have exposure to COVID positive individuals,” director of public health for Riverside County, Kim Saruwatari told News Channel 3. Linda Serrano is one of those excited to
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Millions of Californians are under a new regional stay-at-home order, including residents in Riverside County. The Riverside County Board of Supervisors held their regular meeting on Tuesday, December 8th at 9:30 a.m. The meeting comes as available ICU capacity in Southern California has now dropped to 10.9%. According to data released from Riverside County, there were
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With coronavirus cases surging, our local hospitals are reminding the public to seek proper medical care if you start feeling unwell. Doctors say COVID-19 can impact people differently. And with case numbers climbing again, it’s important to be familiar with some of the early and more mild symptoms. “The big one is lack of taste.
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Millions of Californians are under a new regional stay-at-home order, including residents in Riverside County. Available ICU capacity in Southern California has now dropped to 10.9%. According to data released from Riverside County, there were 77 new coronavirus business outbreaks in November alone. The county defines an outbreak as 3 or more coronavirus cases in one
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Governor Gavin Newsom announced a new statewide cell-phone-based system designed to notify residents when they’ve been exposed to COVID-19. The app will be available for both Apple and Android users starting on Thursday. The CA Notify system was originally developed at UC San Diego and UC San Francisco, and it has been deployed on a
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All jury trials in Riverside County Superior Court will be postponed until at least the first week of 2021 as a precaution to reduce coronavirus exposure risks, court officials announced today. Presiding Judge John Vineyard made the decision based on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s region-by-region stay-at-home order, which took effect at midnight. Learn more about what’s
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Case Changes Riverside County reported 4,327 new cases since Friday. This brings the total number of cases to 92,272. Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue to update past today) Stay-at-home Order in place in Southern California Region (Including Riverside County) The ICU bed availability % for the Southern California region fell below
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Gov. Gavin Newsom today announced a statewide cell-phone-based system designed to notify residents when they’ve been exposed to COVID-19. The CA Notify system was originally developed at UC San Diego and UCSan Francisco, and it has been deployed on a trial basis on seven UC campuses, with an estimated 250,000 people opting in to participate,
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Governor Gavin Newsom is speaking at 9:30 Monday morning about the implementation of a new regional stay-at-home order that began over the weekend. You can watch it live on News Channel 3 and in the player below: The stay-at-home order is impacting residents in the Southern California and San Joaquin Valley areas. It was triggered
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The entire region of Southern California is failing to meet the state’s requirements that would allow it to avert a full stay-at-home order. Under the state’s new stay-at-home order, if a region’s ICU capacity falls below 15% the order will become enacted within 24 hours. On Sunday afternoon, the available ICU capacity in the Southern
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A building at the Indio Fairgrounds remains prepared to house coronavirus patients in the event that area hospitals run out of space. That’s the word from Riverside County Public Information Officer Brooke Federico. Federico says beds and all the necessary equipment to treat less seriously ill patients are still in place at the fairgrounds site,
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Demand for testing has increased along with the holidays and our climbing case numbers. News Channel 3’s Caitlin Thropay was out at a new testing site in Coachella to see how testing is being made more easily available for people living in the east valley. “We’re actually doing the mouth swab, not the nasal swab
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Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco released a video Friday afternoon criticizing Governor Gavin Newsom and said that the department won’t be “blackmailed” into enforcing the pending stay-at-home orders. Newsom announced the new regional stay-at-home orders on Thursday. The orders go into effect when the ICU bed capacity in a region falls below 15%. It isn’t
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Local businesses are preparing for the likelihood of another devastating shutdown. Riverside County spokesperson Brooke Federico confirms that the stay-at-home order will go into effect 24 hours after the Southern California region reaches 15 percent of remaining ICU beds. “It’s been very hard, you know, we have a pregnant lady who’s here who is struggling,
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On Friday, San Bernardino County officially surpassed 100,000 total coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic in March. According to data by John Hopkins, San Bernardino County is now the 10th county in the United States to pass 100,000 cases. This comes amid a surge in cases that has seen the county break several
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Case Changes Riverside County reported 1,148 new cases since Thursday. This brings the total number of cases to 87,945. Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue to update past today) Gov. Newsom announces regional stay-at-home order that could take effect in the next few days Governor Gavin Newsom announced a new regional stay-at-home
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