Riverside County Reports 58 More Coronavirus Cases, 1 New Death

RIVERSIDE (CBSLA) — Riverside County public health officials Monday announced 58 new cases of the novel coronavirus — bringing the countywide total to 291 — and another death.

Officials also reported another death, a man in his 50s from Moreno Valley who died from complications associated with the illness.

He is the county's ninth virus-related death, and second outside of the Coachella Valley.

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The city of Riverside leads the county with 29 confirmed COVID-19 cases, followed by Palm Springs with 26 and Temecula with 24.

Seven of the county's nine fatalities occurred in the Coachella Valley, along with a man in his 70s from Beaumont and the latest death

Starting Tuesday, drive-thru COVID-19 testing in the Coachella Valley will relocate from its current location at Southwest Church in Indian Wells to the Riverside County Fairgrounds in Indio, near where a temporary hospital is located.

Testing at that site will be available Tuesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. by appointment only.

"The fairgrounds is a large site and able to handle both operations of the federal medical station and the drive-up testing," Brooke Federico, Riverside County spokesperson said. "The federal medical station will be in two of the buildings on the fairgrounds, and the drive-up testing will be conducted in one of the larger parking lots."

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On Monday, county officials said that another testing location will open Wendesday at the Harvest Christian Fellowship church in Riverside. It will also see people by appointment only.

A testing location at Diamond Stadium in Lake Elsinore has been operating with March 19 for those living within a 50-mile radius of Riverside.