- Elizabeth Larson
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Two more Lake County residents test positive for COVID-19; cases traced to Mendocino County church service
Lake County Public Health Officer Dr. Gary Pace said the latest two Lake County residents who tested positive for COVID-19 are members of the same household, and there is a known connection to a confirmed positive case in Mendocino County.
Pace said one of the individuals is hospitalized.
Case investigations and contact tracing are ongoing at this time, Pace said.
Lake County’s confirmed COVID-19 case total now stands at 10.
Health departments statewide on Sunday reported more than 79,000 cases and more than 3,200 deaths have been caused by COVID-19.
The Mendocino County Public Health Department said Sunday that Lake County’s two latest cases are related to Mendocino County’s 14th case, which was reported to that agency on Friday evening.
“The case investigation and contact tracing was immediately initiated by Public Health to learn the source of infection and ensure that asymptomatic contacts were quarantined and symptomatic contacts were tested and isolated,” Mendocino County Public Health reported.
The agency said that the Initial findings of this investigation were determined and verified by Saturday evening.
Mendocino County’s 14th COVID-19 case is an elderly male living in the Ukiah Valley who is a close contact of the two Lake County residents just diagnosed with COVID-19. The Lake County cases were confirmed on Saturday afternoon, officials said.
The source of this outbreak involving three people has been determined to have happened at an inland Mendocino County church where a livestream church service with singing occurred on Mother’s Day, Mendocino County Public Health reported.
Officials said all three of the new cases were at the venue during the livestream and two of the individuals participated in the livestream event with singing at the church.
Mendocino and Lake County Public Health officials are working together to reach any other individuals who are contacts of these three new cases, including anyone who participated in the livestream church service with singing.
One of the Lake County residents was hospitalized at Adventist Health Ukiah Valley on Saturday. The other Lake County resident and Mendocino County’s 14th case are in stable condition, in isolation, at their homes, officials said.
To protect privacy, Mendocino County Public Health is not releasing the name of the inland Mendocino church at this time but is urging the church leaders to do so themselves in order to encourage members of the church to seek testing for COVID-19 and medical attention if needed.
Pace declined to release further information about the Lake County cases in order to protect the identity of the individuals.
Lake County’s previous cases also were connected to out-of-county contacts and some involved multiple people in the same households, as Lake County News has reported.
The other eight individuals in Lake County who tested positive for the virus have recovered, Lake County Public Health reported.
To date, Lake County Public Health reported that more than 1,100 county residents have been tested for COVID-19.
The news comes as Lake County is preparing to submit a variance to the state to seek a quicker reopening under the governor’s Roadmap to Recovery.
If you have symptoms or are otherwise concerned you may have been exposed to COVID-19, contact your medical provider, visit https://www.projectbaseline.com/study/covid-19/ to schedule drive-thru testing or contact the Health Services Department, Public Health Division, for information on your options.
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