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Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 13 new cases of COVID-19 today and reported two new hospitalizations. The county also announced that a new masking order — which lifts the mask mandate outdoors as of Nov. 8, but “strongly recommends” the practice in crowded areas — will take effect Monday. The order also outlines benchmarks the […]

Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 24 new COVID-19 cases today, with no new hospitalizations or deaths reported. Earlier today, the county released a set of benchmarks that will have to be reached before local mask mandates are lifted. Read more here. The county reported yesterday that an advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control […]

Humboldt County Public Health reported five new COVID-19 hospitalizations today, while also confirming six new cases of the virus — though five previously reported cases were removed from the county’s tall. The new hospitalizations included a resident in their 30s, another in their 40s, two in their 60s and one over the age of 80, […]

Four more Humboldt County residents have died of COVID-19, Public Health reported today, while announcing it had confirmed 61 new cases of the virus and three new hospitalizations since Friday’s report. The new cases were reported after laboratories processed 403 samples with a test-positivity rate of 15.1 percent. After recording a test-positivity rate of 10.1 percent […]

Two more Humboldt County residents have died of COVID-19, Public Health reported today, while confirming 28 new cases of the virus. No new hospitalizations were reported. The new cases were reported after laboratories processed 331 samples with a test-positivity rate of 8.5 percent. After recording a test-positivity rate of 10.1 percent in July — the highest […]

Humboldt County Public Health reported another local resident has died of COVID-19 today, while also confirming 13 new cases of the virus and one new hospitalization. The new cases were reported after laboratories processed 117 samples with a test-positivity rate of 11.1 percent. After recording a test-positivity rate of 10.1 percent in July — the highest […]

Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 68 new COVID-19 cases today, with no new hospitalizations reported. The new cases were reported after laboratories processed 288 samples with a test-positivity rate of 23.6 percent. Since Oct. 21, local vaccinators have administered 918 addition doses of COVID-19 vaccine, public health reported, with 475 additional residents becoming fully vaccinated. […]

Humboldt County Public Health reported one new COVID-19 hospitalization and four new cases today, while also reporting that nine cases have been removed from the county’s cumulative case tally because they were found tube from another jurisdiction, previously reported or not a confirmed case. The total number of Humboldt County residents who have tested positive […]

Humboldt County Public Health reported today that it has confirmed 51 new COVID-19 cases and one new hospitalization since its last report Friday. The case tally — which comes after the county saw 164 new cases of the virus confirmed last week — comes after laboratories processed 466 samples with a test-positivity rate of 10.9 […]

Humboldt County Public Health reported another local COVID-19 death today, while confirming 33 new cases of the virus and two new hospitalizations. The case tally — which brings the count’s total for the week to 164 — comes after laboratories processed 493 samples with a test-positivity rate of 6.7 percent. After recording a test-positivity rate of […]

Humboldt County Public Health reported 10 new COVID-19 cases and two new hospitalizations today. But the low case tally — which brings the count’s total for the week to 131 — comes after laboratories processed just 19 samples with a test-positivity rate of 52.6 percent. After recording a test-positivity rate of 10.1 percent in July — […]