RIVERSIDE (CNS) - Riverside County health officials confirmed 37 more coronavirus cases today and reported the first COVID-19 fatality outside of the Coachella Valley, bringing the countywide death toll to eight and overall case number to 107.The latest death was a man in his 70s living in an area public health officials call the county's mid-region, which includes Banning, Hemet and Anza, according to Jose Arballo, spokesman for the Riverside University Health System.With 37 new cases, Wednesday saw the county's largest single-day bump in infections since the first case was reported March 8.Prior to the newest numbers being released, the county's COVID-19 case map showed the Coachella Valley with the highest number of prior or ongoing infections, at 31. The northwestern county
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