City Passes 1,000 Mark in Local COVID-19 Cases

The city’s Coronavirus case count crossed 1,000 on Tuesday when health officials reported 12 new Coronavirus cases, increasing the city’s total to 1,008.

So far 84 local residents —  8.3 percent —have died.

The city’s death rate has been plunging with just one death reported since May 25.

Currently there are 23 Coronavirus patients being treated at Huntington Hospital.

Even with the declining numbers health officials around the country are watching to see if protests around the country attended by hundreds of thousands of people will lead to a second wave of cases an fatalities.

The numbers are far below projections that indicated as many as 1,300 people could require hospitalization at Huntington Hospital by mid-May.

At the end of this month, the city will close the alternate care unit at the Pasadena Convention Center that was designed to treat Coronavirus patients if Huntington Hospital reached capacity during the pandemic.

The facility will be closed at the end of the month, according to Pasadena Public Information Officer Lisa Derderian.