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Once or twice a month, we plan to do a review of what was asked and answered.Noozhawk is no longer accepting reader comments on our articles. There have been 7,074 total confirmed coronavirus cases and 73 deaths, according to Public Health officials.A Santa Barbara resident “over 70 years of age” died of COVID-19, officials said Tuesday. Hot Property: Joanna Kerns, Marc Appleton sell home near Meghan, Harry  Los Angeles Times “We do hope to have more information and more data by next week.”Public Health officials “don’t know the magnitude or the timing of when the cases might come in or how this might affect our testing positivity rate,” Koegler said, adding that more employees have tested positive for COVID-19 since the novel coronavirus settled in the county.Many Santa Barbara County-area businesses reopened with modifications amid the coronavirus.“Employers play a large role in preventing disease spread both in their workplace and also in our community,” Koegler said.Koegler said the first step is employees “should tell their employer if they test positive or if someone in their household has tested positive because then they are a household contact.”Keep up with Noozhawk's daily COVID-19 coverage, delivered at 4:15 a.m. right to your inbox.The Public Health Department does not require employees to get “retested before they go back to work,” Koegler said. In June and July, 12 residents died in a COVID-19 outbreak at the A disclaimer on the county's online COVID-19 dashboard notes that "recent data published" is “likely to be an underestimate of true cases in the county" because of state-level computer issues.“We do expect additional cases to appear in the system in the coming days,” Koegler said. This page was cached on Thursday, August 13 , 2020, 11:46 am | Mostly Cloudy 73ºThe county reported 78 new COVID-19 cases and one new known virus-related death. A membership in the Farm Bureau reaches well beyond the boundaries of the county. There are four key stages to Santa Barbara County’s reopening on the road back to “business as usual.” Santa Barbara County is currently in Stage 3 of the state’s plan for reopening. In others, we may ask you to vote on your top choices to help us narrow the scope. Help.

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If one or more cases occur in staff or residents, the facility “then must conduct testing of all the staff and residents.

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