Coronavirus In Rohnert Park-Cotati: 1.1K Cases In Central County

ROHNERT PARK-COTATI, CA — As the cumulative number of coronavirus cases in Sonoma County continued to climb, reaching 1,886 by Monday evening, 56 percent of the county's cases — 1,100 — since the outbreak began in March have been in the Central County area of Rohnert Park, Cotati and Santa Rosa.

According to the state's county monitoring list, Sonoma County is experiencing increasing hospitalization. As of Monday, there were 92 coronavirus patients hospitalized in Sonoma County.

According to the state, drivers of the hospitalization situation include outbreaks in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and residential care facilities for the elderly, and rising case rates, particularly in the Latinx community, due to exposure of essential workers, household clusters, increasing workplace and community transmission with the state's reopening, and large social gatherings.

The state's key actions for Sonoma County to address concerns are: 1) restructuring of SNFs to allow for quarantine/isolation of PUIs and positive cases to avoid further spread, 2) field surveillance and testing at congregate care sites, 3) formation of a Latinx community workgroup, pop-up testing sites in Latinx community locations with highest rates of case transmission, and partnerships with community organizations and health partners to provide culturally sensitive case management and connection to resources, 4) building contact tracing and case investigation capacity and hiring of additional bilingual/bicultural staff, 5) public messaging and education on the importance of hygiene, social distancing, not gathering, and facial coverings, 6) outreach and support to businesses around implementing safety measures, 7) building alternate care site capacity to expand health care capacity and non-congregate care site for isolation/quarantine, and 8) securing PPE supplies in preparation for possible shortages in hospitals and skilled nursing facilities.

Further, under new orders that came down Monday from California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sonoma as well as the other counties on the state's monitoring list — including Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa and Solano in the Bay Area — must close gyms, places of worship, offices in non-critical sectors, hair and nail salons and indoor malls, in addition to what on Monday became the statewide closure of all bars and all indoor activities at restaurants, wineries, movie theaters, zoos, museums and card rooms.

Sonoma County Coronavirus Cases By Region

Sonoma County had 1,886 cumulative cases Monday evening, 894 of which were active. Here is the breakdown of cumulative cases by region since the outbreak began:

Central County (Cotati, Rohnert Park, Santa Rosa): 1,100 cases / 56 percent
South County (Petaluma, Penngrove): 366 cases, 19 percent
East County (Glen Ellen, Kenwood, Sonoma): 160 cases/ 8 percent
North County (Windsor, Healdsburg and north to Cloverdale): 152 cases/ 8 percent
Under Investigation: 109 cases /6 percent
West County (Guerneville, Sebastopol): 49 cases / 3 percent

Bay City News Service contributed to this report.