The Calaveras County District Attorney’s Office has been further impacted by COVID-19 after three employees tested positive for the virus, with an additional three tests pending for other symptomatic employees.

Four months after the first round of COVID-19 business shutdowns, an elderly Calaveras County resident has died from complications related to the disease.

With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations on the rise across California, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced rollbacks in the reopening of the state on Monday.

Six new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Calaveras County, while one woman has succumbed to the disease in Amador County.

Eight more county residents have tested positive for COVID-19, bumping the total number of cases up to 61, Calaveras County Public Health announced Tuesday afternoon.

Calaveras County Public Health has confirmed 13 new cases of COVID-19—the highest number of cases reported in a single day since the onset of the pandemic. 

Calaveras County has seen its most accelerated week yet of new cases since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 11 cases confirmed and eight of those cases reported within a single day. The countywide count is now 40, with the majority of cases occurring in Valley Springs. 

The following press release was issued by Calaveras County Public Health. 

Calaveras County has reported nine new COVID-19 cases in the last two weeks, none of which were traced back to individuals from outside of the county, Public Health Officer Dean Kelaita, MD, told the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors in a meeting Tuesday.

Calaveras County Public Health has reported two additional cases of COVID-19 confirmed in a Valley Springs man and a woman.

Update 3:35 p.m., 6/19/20: Tuolumne County Sheriff Bill Pooley issued the following statement in regards to facemask enforcement:

Another Valley Springs resident has tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total case count in Calaveras County to 26, County Public Health announced in a June 12 press release.

Copperopolis has seen big changes in recent years, and Mark Twain Health Care District (MTHCD) announced another one on Wednesday.

Two additional COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in a man and a woman from Valley Springs.

Wineries, bars and gyms are just a few among a swath of businesses that will be allowed to reopen with modifications Friday under California guidelines.

Though COVID-19 has caused delays in conducting the 2020 Census, field operations recently resumed out of the Stockton census office, which serves Calaveras County.

Two more cases of COVID-19 in Calaveras County have been diagnosed, linked to a previously diagnosed case, according to a press release issued by Calaveras Health and Human Services Agency.

A San Andreas woman has been diagnosed with COVID-19, bringing the countywide count to 16.

The Stanislaus National Forest (SNF) recently announced that most developed recreation sites will remain closed through June 15. Restrictions were set to expire May 31.

While events have been moving at a swift pace during the COVID-19 pandemic, the latest statistics from the Employment Development Department (EDD) shed some light on how Calaveras County has been affected.

For Californians who have exhausted their unemployment insurance benefits for this year, additional help has recently become available.

Following historically dry weather earlier this year, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit (TCU) has suspended all burn permits for outdoor residential burning in Calaveras County, effective June 1.

At the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, Health Officer Dean Kelaita, MD, announced that the state will now allow barbershops and hair salons to reopen in Calaveras County. Churches, dine-in restaurants and all retail stores have also been permitted to reopen in recent days.

An elderly man from Valley Springs has been hospitalized with COVID-19, bringing the countywide total or reported cases to 15.

A new case of COVID-19 was confirmed Sunday in an asymptomatic man who lives along the upper Highway 4 corridor, bringing the case count in Calaveras County to 14.

This is a massive overreaction to the real level of danger in Calaveras County. The notion that our shelter-in-place order should be practically equivalent to that of New York City is patently absurd. No golfing? No recreational boating (pray tell how a boater endangers himself or others)? F…

I’m just curious as to why Calaveras County doesn’t have more capacity for testing.