SAN DIEGO COUNTY, California — Governor Gavin Newsom provided an update Monday regarding the state of California's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Governor's update was from his home due to Sunday's announcement that Newsom will enter a 10-day quarantine out of an abundance of caution despite testing negative for COVID-19 after a staff member he had been in contact with tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, a spokesperson for the governor’s office confirmed.
Monday's update comes on the heels of San Diego County recently reporting all-time highs for daily COVID-19 cases. The top four highest daily cases have all occurred in the past week, with Wednesday's 2,807 cases, Thursday's 2,604, Friday's 3,611 and Saturday's 3,493.
Governor Newsom gave an update on ICU capacity by region. Both the Southern California and San Joaquin Valley regions are both at 0.0% available ICU capacity. "Based upon all the data and trendlines it's very likely that we will need to extend that stay-at-home order in the Southern California and San Joaquin Valley regions," Gov. Newsom said.
Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state expects to receive 672,600 doses of the newly approved Moderna COVID-19 vaccine this week, with 110,000 already received. The state expects to receive another 233,025 doses of the Pfizer vaccine this week, bringing the total to 560,625 over two weeks. He says 70,258 doses of vaccine were administered last week across the state.
Governor Newsom discussed Federal COVID-19 relief that is planned for California showing several slides that broke down the different elements that the state should expect.
CA: Federal COVID-19 Relief
Watch the full December 21 update from the Governor here:
San Diego County public health officials Sunday reported 3,493 COVID-19 infections as of Saturday and no new deaths, bringing the county's total to 126,465 cases and the death toll remaining at 1,280.
Prior to Sunday's report, a record 3,611 COVID-19 infections were reported Friday. The cases surpassed the previous record set one week ago -- 2,867 last Friday -- by 744 new cases.