County health officials said the daily average case rate had risen to 15.7 per 100,000 people, compared with 12.9 cases per 100,000 people just the week before.
But officials said that was still a smaller rate of increase compared with the week before that when cases increased more than 80% from the previous week.
“The tragic reality is that almost every single person hospitalized and dying from COVID-19 is unvaccinated and these hospitalizations and deaths are, for the most part, preventable,†Barbara Ferrer, the county public health director, said in a statement over the weekend.County health officials reported 3,318 new COVID-19 cases and 11 coronavirus-related deaths.
The county public health department noted that hospitalizations have risen 45% since just last Saturday but have not increased as rapidly as new COVID-19 cases. .She added that more residents, especially younger people in the county, “need to have higher levels of vaccination†to reverse the course of surging cases and hospitalizations.