Beginning Tuesday, July 6, the Orange County Health Care Agency will no longer provide daily COVID-19 case count updates, announcing it would be shifting to weekly updates, each Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. 

Within the July 6 COVID-19 update, HCA reported a single COVID-19 related death, along with 331 new COVID-19 cases from data collected between July 3 and July 6. 

During that same period, HCA reported 18,184 PCR tests. Countywide, the agency has reported 4,151,408 total PCR tests.

Accumulatively, Orange County reported 256,776 COVID-19 cases, which includes 5,124 deaths.

As of July 6, there were a total of 73 patients being treated for COVID-19, with 11 in the intensive care unit. 

Since June, the county’s ICU has yet to see a total lower than six, while the number of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 reached a low of 40 on June 26.

One year ago, Orange County was at the peak of its first COVID-19 wave. Then, on July 6, 2020, there were 659 people hospitalized with 224 in the ICU, due to COVID-19.

According to HCA as of June 30, 1,663,883 individuals have been vaccinated under the two-dose program, and 115,426 have been vaccinated under the Johnson & Johnson one-dose program.

As of June 30, at least 1,779,309 Orange County residents are fully vaccinated, according to OC Health Care Agency.

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