Orange County Reports Record 4,606 New COVID-19 Cases

A hospital worker walks equipment into an emergency triage tent set up outside of Kaiser Permanente's Orange County Medical Center in Irvine, Calif., on Dec. 11, 2020. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

SANTA ANA, Calif. (CNS)—Orange County reported a single-day record 4,606 new cases of COVID-19 and 15 additional deaths Dec. 20, bringing the county’s totals to 124,428 cases and 1,775 fatalities.

The county’s record-setting trend of COVID-19 hospitalizations continued, with 1,682—a jump from 1,601 on Dec. 19—and 375 COVID-19 patients in intensive care units (ICU), up from 361 the previous day.