BY MAURICIO SANJUAN MELO
In a joint effort to vaccinate agricultural workers, the United Against COVID-19 Coalition held a Vaccination Clinic in Kern County over the weekend.
Kern County Public Health was notified that one case of the B.1.1.7. strain of the coronavirus has been detected in Kern County, health officials announced Thursday.
The United Against COVID Coalition is holding a series of COVID-19 vaccination clinics this weekend in Kern County for agricultural workers.
The State announced Tuesday that Kern County’s COVID-19 metrics meet the thresholds for the State’s COVID-19 Blueprint for a Safer Economy, moving Kern closer to the Red Tier.
Land that was once used nearly 60 years ago to address farm workers’ needs was used again this weekend to bring critical health services to Central Valley farm workers.
Kern County remains in the purple tier — the most restrictive tier — as it doesn’t meet just one of the metrics set by the State’s blueprint for a safer economy, Kern public health officials said at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting.