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<p>The County of San Diego now offers an online map of COVID-19 cases by community for local residents to be able to track how the virus is impacting their local neighborhoods, and the data shows lower-income communities are being hit disproportionately harder.</p>
<p>As of April 21st, the County reported 2,491 confirmed cases, 96 deaths, and 611 patients in local hospitals, 206 of those being in Intensive Care Units (ICU).</p>
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<p>President Donald Trump announced in a Twitter message that he will issue an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into the US, using the COVID-19 crisis as a pretext.</p>
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<p>The emergency loan program that was targeted to help small businesses retain workers during the COVID-19 crisis tapped out its $349 billion after approving over 1.6 million loans, but some of the loans went to large publicly-held corporations that have access to debt and the stock market.</p>
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<p>The San Diego County Sheriff has already released more than 1,200 inmates and plans to release hundreds more to reduce overcrowding at local detentions centers in hopes of minimizing the spread of the COVID-19 virus.</p>
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<p>Over 33,000 undocumented immigrants remain in the custody of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after 72 detainees have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, including one at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in South San Diego.</p>
<p>ICE has recently released 160 low-risk detainees and instructed field offices to review the cases of detainees over 60 years of age and those with certain medical conditions to determine if they can be released to prevent the spread of the virus.</p>
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<p>US Center for Disease Control (CDC) experts confirmed last night than more than 2 million COVID-19 tests have been performed in the US, which means that approximately 99.4 percent of the country has not been tested for the deadly virus.</p>
<p>The rate of testing has increased during the past two weeks, and more than 100,000 more tests are becoming available each day, but only 0.06 percent of the population knows for sure if they have contracted the virus.</p>
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<p>The sounds of lawnmowers and tree trimmers echo throughout neighborhoods as landscapers continue their work during the COVID-19 crisis despite the state and local health orders for most people to remain at home.</p>
<p>Landscape companies both big and small continue their work as nearly all of their work is conducted outdoors with little, if any, interaction with others.</p>
US federal drug enforcement agents discovered a sophisticated tunnel and seized nearly two tons of drugs that were headed for the US deep under new sections of the border wall built during the Trump Administration.