San Diego County COVID-19 Update – 4-30-2021

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Here is today’s COVID-19 update from the County Health and Human Services Agency with data through April 29.

Vaccination Progress:

• Doses delivered: Almost 3.04 million.
• Doses administered: Close to 2.76 million.
• Received at least one shot: Almost 1.48 million or 54.9% of San Diegans 16 and older.
• Fully vaccinated: About 1.05 million or 38.9%.
• The goal: fully vaccinate 75% of San Diego County residents 16 and older or 2,017,011 people.
• To date, 73.3% of the goal population has received at least one vaccine and 51.8% are fully vaccinated.
• More vaccination info at www.vaccinationsuperstation.com.

State Metrics:

• San Diego County’s state-calculated, adjusted case rate is currently 6.2 cases per 100,000 residents.
• The testing positivity percentage is 2.3%.
• The health equity metric is 3.0%.
• CDPH assesses counties on a weekly basis. The next report is scheduled for Tuesday, May 4.

Community Setting Outbreaks:

• Six new community outbreaks were confirmed April 29: three in college/university settings, one in a restaurant/bar setting, one in a retail setting and one in a TK-12^th grade school setting.
• In the past seven days (April 23 through April 29), 24 community outbreaks were confirmed.
• The community outbreaks trigger is seven or more in seven days.

Testing:

• 16,897 tests were reported to the County on April 29, and the percentage of new positive cases was 1%.
• The 14-day rolling average percentage of positive cases is 1.5%. Target is less than 8.0%.
• The 7-day, daily average of tests is 13,970.

Cases, Hospitalizations and ICU Admissions:

• 196 COVID-19 cases were reported to the County on April 29. The region’s total is now 276,156.
• 15,231 or 5.5% of all cases have required hospitalization.
• 1,683 or 0.6% of all cases and 11% of hospitalized cases had to be admitted to an intensive care unit.

Deaths:

• Two new COVID-19 deaths were reported April 29. The region’s total is 3,702.
• A woman in her 20s died April 20 and a man in his 60s died April 28. Both had underlying medical conditions.

More Information:

The more detailed data summaries found on the County’s coronavirus-sd.com website are updated around 5 p.m. daily.