Published by KQED
On Dec. 23, just two days before Christmas, the number of active COVID-19 cases in Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail shot up from five to 56, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office reported in an easily overlooked post on Twitter.
Sgt. Ray Kelly, a spokesman for the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, which runs the jail, says it’s the second outbreak at the facility since the pandemic began, despite a set of protocols in place to ward off the virus.
