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Over the last month, the spread of COVID-19 in the San Joaquin Valley has slowed. But not all measures of the disease have improved, and health officials say it’s no time for the community to let down its guard. Fresno County’s Interim Health Officer Dr. Rais Vohra is concerned about the virus spreading during Labor Day weekend. In a media call on Tuesday, he said he knows it’s hard to hear, but non-essential gatherings should be cancelled. “Labor Day is not a time to be taking a holiday from safety even if you’re taking a holiday from work,” he warned. He noted there had been upticks in virus transmission after people gathered without properly protecting themselves during both Memorial Day and Fourth of July weekends. “That attitude change was really counterproductive and I really want to guard against that,” he said. August was the pandemic’s deadliest month in the seven-county region of the southern San Joaquin Valley and foothills: Of the 1,055 people who had succumbed to the
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