SANTA ANA—Orange County Jan. 29 logged 107 more COVID-19 fatalities, a record number in a single batch of death reports, which raised the cumulative to 2,975 for the pandemic.
The death reports are staggered because they come from a variety of sources and are not always logged immediately, but the batch of reports logged Jan. 29 pushed the death toll for the month of December to 801, far and away the county’s deadliest month. So far, the death toll for January is at 475.
