Eight of the nine counties in the region are among those that have the highest infection rate in California, with San Francisco reporting 54 daily cases per 100,000 residents.
The number of people hospitalized in the city with COVID-19 climbed to 76, up from 61 last week.San Francisco public school students and staff reported 320 coronavirus cases last week, including 303 exposures where those infected were on a school site within 48 hours of showing symptoms or testing positive for the coronavirus.On Friday, health officers from around the Bay Area issued a joint statement strongly urging but not requiring that residents once again mask up indoors amid the swell of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.“They are infections that beget more cases, they beget long COVID, they beget sickness, hospitalizations and deaths.”.
More than 90,000 people in California have died from COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, with the state reporting an average of 40 new deaths a day for the past six weeks.