COVID-19

Chabad South County Jewish Center is planning to give away 20,000 cloth facemasks this week to residents and families in Morgan Hill and Gilroy in order to help reduce the spread of Covid-19.

Below are the latest Covid-19 statistics as reported by Johns Hopkins University and Santa Clara County: As of Feb. 5: World: 105,048,430 cases; 2,288,655 deaths U.S.: 26,691,738 cases; 456,295 deaths Santa Clara County: 103,748 cases; 1,505 deaths Morgan Hill: 3,122 cases Gilroy: 6,806 cases San Jose: 68,416 cases As of Jan....

The mayors of Morgan Hill, Gilroy and 14 other cities signed a letter asking Santa Clara County officials to substantially increase COVID-19 testing capacities before reopening communities to normal business.

Wastewater readings in Gilroy show a rise of Covid-19 that is outpacing other areas of the county, possibly indicating a post-Thanksgiving surge in cases to come. The quantity of SARS-CoV-2 genes, the virus that causes Covid-19, has doubled in Gilroy over the past two weeks,...

As of Sept. 28, Santa Clara County and Johns Hopkins University reported the following numbers of Covid-19 cases and deaths in the world, nation and local jurisdictions. COVID-19 CASES BY THE NUMBERS As of Sept. 28: World: 33,224,222 cases; 999,298 deaths U.S.: 7,134,874 cases; 204,905 deaths Santa Clara...

Santa Clara County released the most detailed look yet at its pandemic-related spending.

Frustrated that Covid-19 testing rates are still far below public health goals, Santa Clara County today announced that all private health clinics and hospitals in the county must immediately provide Covid-19 tests on demand to citizens in three categories.

The L452R variant of Covid-19—being identified by viral genomic sequencing in San Francisco, Monterey and Santa Clara counties—has been linked to the outbreak at Kaiser Permanente's San Jose Medical Center that led to several dozen infections and possibly one death, as well as other large outbreaks in Santa Clara County.

An effort to vaccinate 1,000 farmworkers this week at Monterey Mushrooms’ north Morgan Hill facility began Sunday morning—the first day that frontline workers in the agricultural industry are eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine in Santa Clara County. Public health experts and labor advocates say that...

Two employees at United Natural Foods’ Gilroy distribution center that tested positive for Covid-19 have recovered and returned to work, the company confirmed.