San Bernardino County spokesman David Wert said the county had 111 coronavirus cases as of Sunday, March 29, up from 76 on Saturday; with three deaths. The number of deaths was unchanged from Saturday.
San Bernardino County also saw its first positive cases of coronavirus in firefighters, Yucaipa reeled from the news of an outbreak in a nursing facility, and a prison inmate in Chino tested positive.
The San Bernardino County Fire Department said two of its firefighters tested positive. One works for the San Bernardino County Fire Protection District and the other for the Montclair Fire Department. Both entered self-isolation after experiencing flu-like symptoms.
“Currently, the firefighters are feeling well and remain in isolation,” a department news release states.
At the California Institution for Men in Chino, seven employees and one inmate have tested positive, officials said Sunday. Staff information is self reported. That number is up from two employees with coronavirus, which had been announced a week ago.
On Saturday, San Bernardino County reported 12 residents of a nursing facility in Yucaipa tested positive, and one patient, an 89-year-old woman with underlying health issues, died from the illness on Thursday.
County officials would not confirm the name of the facility, but TV news footage showed workers in protective gear removing items such as beds and wheelchairs from Cedar Mountain Skilled Nursing Facility on Fourth Street.
Mayor David Avila said he couldn’t confirm which facility the cases were at, but said the city was working with county health officials to get that information.
“So far, they’re not releasing anything,” Avila said.
County health workers are testing employees and all the other residents at the affected facility.
Of the woman who died, Avila said, “she became the first casualty of Yucaipa, which is sad. It’s just a reminder that we need to keep our social distance and shelter at home as much as possible, except for essential needs.”
People also should support each other, he said.
“Talk to your neighbors, make sure they have everything they need,” Avila said.
Longtime Yucaipa resident Jo Sutt, who lives about five blocks from the Cedar Mountain facility, called the proximity of the newest cases “concerning.”
While she is being extremely cautious, the 71-year-old said she had been out to help with a Sunday morning food distribution at Oak Valley Church.
“I was very careful not to come in contact with anybody,” Sutt said. “Perhaps the wisest thing is not to go out, but I can’t see myself quite doing that. I still am part of the community.”
She said the community has been in denial about the outbreak, because it is a smaller area and further away from larger cities.
But, she added, “everybody’s in contact with everybody else, we’re not that isolated anymore.”
Now that the virus is here, Avila said, “this is real and we need to make decisions on how we want to protect ourselves.”
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