Several Bay Area counties delayed their daily coronavirus updates Tuesday due to “system issues” with CalREDIE, California’s Reportable Disease Information Exchange.
Santa Clara County provided notice in a tweet on Tuesday afternoon, shortly after a scheduled time its public health department typically updates its coronavirus dashboards. The dashboards are expected to be updated as soon as possible, but the tweet said updated case counts and lab testing numbers are “not available today.”
In a statement posted to its health department page, Contra Costa County’s public health department said “We are aware that the numbers have not been updated today. We are awaiting updated data from the State.”
Alameda County figures were also later than usual Tuesday, although officials did not immediately release any statement on the reason for the delay.
CalREDIE is a secure system the California Department of Public Health has implemented for electronic disease reporting and surveillance.
In data released on Monday, the Bay Area’s most populous county has recorded 1,666 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus and 60 people in the county have died after testing positive for COVID-19. The death rate per 100,000 residents topped 3.0 on Monday, giving Santa Clara County one of the highest rates of any of the 58 counties across California.
A day after six more people in Santa Clara County died after testing positive for COVID-19, Gov. Gavin Newsom said during his Tuesday press briefing the California Department of Public Health recorded 71 coronavirus deaths on Monday, its highest single-day total to date. Newsom said there have now been 758 COVID-19-related deaths in the state, but the number of hospitalizations of patients who have tested positive continues to increase modestly while the number of patients requiring care in ICU beds has begun to stabilize.
In the Monday update provided by the Santa Clara County Public Health Department, data showed more than 1,000 of the confirmed cases of coronavirus in the county were located in the city of San Jose.
Staff writer George Kelly contributed to this report.