Virus Hits Three Nearby Assisted Living Homes – 10 Cases Now Confirmed Within Malibu City Limits
Written by 991KBU on April 9, 2020
Los Angeles County health officials on Wednesday confirmed 29 new coronavirus-linked deaths.
That would be the biggest daily jump of the pandemic — bringing the county’s death toll to 198.
Those additional fatalities pushed the virus’ mortality rate in the county to 2.6%, Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said.
The mortality rate is the percentage of people who die … divided into the number of people confirmed with the disease.
The number of people testing positive for the illness has reached 7,530.
In Ventura County … the seventh death is reported.
263 confirmed cases with 52 hospitalized in Ventura County now.
There are 10 confirmed cases of COVID in Malibu now.
In the Santa Monica Mountains … 5 confirmed cases.
81 cases in the city of Santa Monica.
In Calabasas … 20 cases.
Agoura Hills … 19 cases.
And now this grim development.
Three nursing homes or rehab centers in Santa Monica are seeing clusters of COVID 19 cases .
One is inside a rehabilitation center in Santa Monica.
It’s the second floor, subacute care wing at the Beachwood Post Acute and rehab Center … on 15th Street near Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica.
Another is inside the Rehabilitation Center of Santa Monica … on 20th Street near Santa Monica Boulevard.
And at the third is inside an adult care nursing home across on Pico Boulevard at 19th Street .. called The Manor.
