In one county on California’s North Coast, COVID is surging - San Francisco Chronicle

The Carson House mansion in Eureka, the biggest city in Humboldt County.

California’s coronavirus case rates are approaching an all-time low, but in one county on the North Coast, the numbers are moving in the wrong direction.

Humboldt County, whose biggest city, Eureka, is 230 miles north of San Francisco, recorded 137 new cases last week.

County officials attribute the recent uptick to the spread of the transmissible coronavirus variant first discovered in the United Kingdom, known as B.1.1.7.

Health officials in the county of 135,558 said people ages 20 to 29 represent 23.3% of the new cases, more than any other age group.