It didn’t take long. Less than a week from the start of the school year for most Imperial County school districts, reports of students testing positive for COVID-19 have already begun.
EL CENTRO — COVID-19 case rates in Imperial County continue to rise as the delta variant has gained traction, but the overall severity of cases appears to have been abated through the county’s highly successful vaccination program.
Imperial County, tucked into the southeast corner of California, learned early on what it meant to be a COVID-19 hotspot. The virus bulldozed throu…
YUMA — A recent study suggests persons who contract COVID-19 are not only at higher risk of severe infection and death if they are diabetic, they m…
EL CENTRO — The state of California has new masking guidelines for healthcare and state workers.
EL CENTRO — In the past three weeks, COVID-19 cases have nearly tripled and local health officials expect them to continue to increase.
EL CENTRO – Not long after Los Angeles reinstated its indoor mask mandate, Imperial County health officials issued a statement recommending residen…
EL CENTRO — California on June 15 is expected to reopen, and capacity and distancing restrictions will be lifted for most businesses and activities.
EL CENTRO – Imperial County Public Health Department has confirmed the death of the youngest local victim of COVID-19.
EL CENTRO — Although the Imperial County Health Department is urging all residents 16 and older to get vaccinated against COVID-19, fewer people ar…
EL CENTRO — Although vaccine doses have increased to more than 82,000 in Imperial County, COVID-19 positive case numbers are continuing to climb.
EL CENTRO – Effective today, any Imperial County resident 16 and older is eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
EL CENTRO — After the state reached 4 million vaccine doses administered to people living in the vaccine equity quartile the California Department …
EL CENTRO — After several weeks of declining COVID-19 cases that resulted in Imperial County progressing to the red tier and being tantalizingly cl…
EL CENTRO — The state announced Tuesday Imperial County will stay in the red tier for at least another two weeks after its numbers increased this p…
EL CENTRO — Herd immunity for COVID-19, at least for California, received a big boost when the state announced this week its new vaccine schedule.
EL CENTRO – The quarantine rules for persons who have been exposed to COVID-19 became much more complicated Monday with the introduction of a new c…
EL CENTRO — The City Council and the El Centro Regional Medical Center board of trustees will be meeting sometime Wednesday afternoon to discuss wh…
EL CENTRO — Hundreds of persons, including many elderly, are lined up outside Imperial Valley Mall tonight and prepared to stay until morning in an…
EL CENTRO — El Centro Regional Medical Center has not seen the surge of COVID-19 positive patients that it initially anticipated as a result of Chr…
EL CENTRO — Imperial County Supervisor Jesus Eduardo Escobar wants to know how the more contagious COVID-19 variant will impact the already strappe…
IMPERIAL — Both the Imperial Irrigation District and the County of Imperial say the hundreds of employees who are working from home because of COVI…
EL CENTRO — A COVID-19 exposure outbreak at the Imperial County Department of Services, where up to 80 employees could have come in close contact w…
As California continues to ride its worst wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health officials have more unsettling news: Six cases of a worrisom…
EL CENTRO — El Centro Regional Medical Center is hopeful a new therapy for treating high-risk COVID-19 patients will limit the number of hospital a…
SACRAMENTO — After painting a dark forecast for the pandemic earlier this week, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday offered parents and students some ho…
EL CENTRO — More than 5,000 persons responded to an online Imperial County Public Health Department survey intended to measure public perceptions a…
Imperial County hospitals began administering doses of the new COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech on Monday.
EL CENTRO — Five Imperial County Public Health Department employees on Friday were injected with new COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.
EL CENTRO — As of Tuesday, El Centro Regional Medical Center had a total inpatient count of 160.
EL CENTRO — On a day state officials warned that intensive care unit capacity for the Southern Region, including Imperial County, has continued to …
EL CENTRO — The county is expected to receive 2,175 doses of COVID-19 vaccine before month’s end.
EL CENTRO — The Imperial County Public Health Department is trying to get a handle on local attitudes and demand for a COVID-19 vaccine as it becom…
EL CENTRO — The Imperial County Board of Supervisors at its Tuesday meeting ratified a grant for almost $1.03 million that is earmarked for emergen…
EL CENTRO — For a while the Imperial Irrigation District General Manager Henry Martinez has told the IID board how well the district’s employees we…
