Coronavirus Update: Fresno County Reports Third Death

Fresno County Dept. of Public Health has confirmed a third death as of April 7, 2020. 

The Fresno County Department of Public Health confirmed 22 additional cases of COVID-19 and the county’s third death April 7.

The FCDPH confirmed 146 total cases of COVID-19. Information on the third death was not made publicly available.

Thirty-six of the confirmed cases were travel-related, 25 cases were spread person-to-person, 37 were community-spread and the remaining 48 are still under investigation.

For the first time since the breakout began, the FCDPH released a city-by-city breakdown of coronavirus cases.

The City of Fresno tops the chart with 93 cases and Clovis is in second 15 cases. Other cities include Firebaugh (12 cases), Sanger (seven cases) and Reedley (six cases).

Ten other Fresno County Communities, including Kerman, Fowler, Parlier and Kingsburg, had four or fewer cases.

Fresno’s neighboring counties continue to see more cases each day.

As of Wednesday morning, Madera County reported 30 cases and 2 deaths, Merced County reported 34 cases and 3 deaths, Tulare county reported 157 cases and six deaths and Kings County reported five cases.

Ron Camacho was born and raised in Clovis. He attended Clovis High School and graduated from CSU Fresno in 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications and Journalism. Before joining the Roundup, Ron wrote for Pollstar Magazine and the Sanger Herald. He has a deep appreciation for the arts and is a lover of music, cinema and storytelling. When he’s not busy looking for his next story, Ron enjoys taking weekend expeditions to the beach or mountains to practice landscape photography.