“In the last several years, divisive rhetoric, hate speech and outward acts of violence have been on the rise across the United States, and while no community is ever immune to it, it has come out from the shadows and into the light in San Diego County,” Fletcher said. In an effort to combat recent incidents in Santee of people in grocery stores using their COVID-19 face coverings to display symbols of racism and hate, in addition to recent rises in hate crimes based on bias and prejudice, Supervisor Nathan Fletcher said Sunday that he will propose the creation of a human relations commission to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. The number of patients requiring hospitalization is 1,104, and 332 patients had to be placed in intensive care, according to San Diego Public Health Services.

Of the 4,363 tests reported to the county so far, 4% were positive new cases.