A local father is mourning the death of his daughter who passed away from COVID-19 Thursday night. Jeff Garcia said his 32-year-old-daughter, Andrea Garcia, worked as a nurse at Rancho Mirage Health & Rehabilitation Center. He said “families would come in and want to give her gifts and things because of the way she took
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NEW CASES Over the past 24 hours, Riverside County has reported 980 new coronavirus cases. This brings the total number of cases up to 343,556. Check Out: RivCo health officials discuss threat of new variants and current COVID-19 trends The case rate per 100K for the county increased for the first time since August 30.
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The Los Angeles board of education has voted to require students 12 and older to be vaccinated against the coronavirus if they attend in-person classes in the nation’s second-largest school district. The board’s vote Thursday makes Los Angeles by far the largest of a very small number of districts with a vaccine requirement. Nearby Culver
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In his most forceful pandemic actions and words, President Joe Biden on Thursday announced sweeping new federal vaccine requirements affecting as many as 100 million Americans in an all-out effort to increase COVID-19 vaccinations and curb the surging delta variant. Read the President’s full COVID-19 plan here Speaking at the White House,
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NEW CASES Over the past 24 hours, Riverside County has reported 816 new coronavirus cases. This brings the total number of cases up to 342,576. Check Out: RivCo health officials discuss threat of new variants and current COVID-19 trends The case rate per 100K has continued to decrease since August 30, going from 27.8 on
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NEW CASES Over the past 24 hours, Riverside County has reported 1,060 new coronavirus cases. This brings the total number of cases up to 341,760. Check Out: RivCo health officials discuss threat of new variants and current COVID-19 trends The case rate per 100K continued to decrease over the holiday weekend as well, going from
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Health officials released updated COVID-19 numbers for Riverside County on Tuesday. While hospitalizations are down by 60 since last Friday, this comes as 1,900 new cases were reported along with 12 deaths. “One of the things that we expected…which is a sad thing, the deaths are going up again. They’re double digits,” said Jose Arballo,
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LifeStream Blood Bank announced an emergency need for COVID Convalescent Plasma (CCP). LifeStream is urging people who had COVID-19 and are fully recovered to pre-register for CCP donations. Potential CCP donors must complete the pre-screening questionnaire at LStream.org/covidplasma. LifeStream’s Medical Services Department will contact respondents to assess eligibility and schedule donations at a LifeStream location most
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NEW CASES Since Friday, Riverside County has reported 1,900 new coronavirus cases. This brings the total number of cases up to 340,700. Break down of cases by Cities: Desert Hot Springs – 79 new casesPalm Springs – 47 new casesCathedral City – 77 new casesRancho Mirage – 21 new casesPalm Desert – 72 new casesIndian
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Business in the valley is picking up ahead of the busy holiday weekend. With travelers flocking to downtown Palm Springs for the extended Labor Day weekend, businesses are hoping for an end-of-summer boost. “Typically it’s always busy during the holiday weekend, so we’ll see around this time with the restrictions,” said Cynthia Perez at Maracas. Coronavirus
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NEW CASES Over the past 24 hours, Riverside County reported 879 new coronavirus cases. This brings the total number of cases up to 338,800. The case rate per 100K continued to decrease, going from 33.1 on Thursday to 32.9 on Friday. The case rate was at 16.9 at the start of August. The county’s positivity
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NEW CASES Over the past 24 hours, Riverside County reported 846 new coronavirus cases. This brings the total number of cases up to 337,921. The case rate per 100K continued to decrease, going from 33.8 on Wednesday to 33.1 on Thursday. The case rate was at 16.9 at the start of August. The county’s positivity
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NEW CASES Over the past 24 hours, Riverside County reported 1,202 new coronavirus cases. This brings the total number of cases up to 337,075. The case rate per 100K fell today, going from 35 on Tuesday to 33.8 on Wednesday. The case rate was at 16.9 at the start of August. The county’s positivity rate
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Sunline Transit will return to normal bus operations next week for the first time since it scaled back service more than a year ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a statement from the transit company, weekday bus operations will return to their regular schedule beginning Tuesday, offering what the company calls “level 1”
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Hospitalizations and ICU data Over the past 24 hours, Riverside County reported 3 additional COVID-related hospitalizations. The county now has a total of 664 hospitalizations. The last time Riverside County this many COVID-related hospitalizations was February 12, 2021. Riverside County now has the second most COVID-related hospitalizations in California, surpassing San Diego County (653). Only
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NEW CASES Over the past 24 hours, Riverside County reported 2,347 new coronavirus cases. This brings the total number of cases up to 334,846. The case rate per 100K increased after a small drop-off last week, going from 35.3 on Friday to 36 on Thursday. The case rate was at 16.9 at the start of
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Indio will be hosting a series of emergency preparedness events at various businesses across the city for National Preparedness Month, officials said today. Each Wednesday in September, Dennis Day, the city’s emergency operations center manager, will partner with Indio businesses to provide locals with emergency preparedness materials and strategies from 10 a.m. to noon. The
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A four-year-old child from western Riverside County has died after contracting COVID-19, county health officials announced on Friday. Officials said the death took place during the first week of August, however, officials waited to report the cause of death until receiving confirmation from the coroner’s office. The child is the youngest person in the county
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Coachella Valley’s three hospitals reported zero to lower-than-usual bed availability on Thursday. Hospital spokespeople from Eisenhower Health as well as JFK Memorial Hospital and Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs said the low bed availability is not entirely due to the coronavirus. There has reportedly been a higher volume of people in the Coachella
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Coachella Valley students are officially back to in-person learning, after more than a year of remote education. The new school year represents a chance for the COVID generation to regain lost opportunities that they missed out on in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Being back is really nice, its refreshing,” said Valeria Gutierrez Senior
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