Delta surge: numbers six times higher than just one month ago
b'August 18, 2021 \\u2014 Mendocino county is experiencing a fourth surge of covid cases, with a peak over the weekend and a record 95 cases on Thursday. County Public Health reported the death of a 49-year-old man in Ukiah yesterday afternoon, bringing the death toll to 56. Five of those deaths have been reported this month.\\nDeputy Public Health Officer Dr. Noemi Doohan said that full genome testing is not widely available, but she\\u2019s confident it\\u2019s the delta variant that\\u2019s sweeping through the county.'