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New Pasadena Chamber member PopID no-contact facial recognition point-of-sale system, temperature-taking technology and more sponsors our networking Connection Breakfast on Wednesday August 19th at 8am. Learn how you can protect your workers and customers by utilizing a facial recognition payment system and the other items offered by PopID.

City of Pasadena officials announced 128 new cases of Corovnavirus last week, about 20 new local cases of the Coronavirus each day. More than half of the City's cases were people under 40 years old. No new deaths were reported as the city’s case count continued to move towards 2,000. So far there have been 1,956 cases and 106 deaths.

This information provides a greater awareness to the Pasadena community. The critical events detailed below are merely a snapshot of the calls received to the Police Communications Center every day.

As you may have heard, the deadline to respond to Census has been moved up!   US Census Bureau has changed the final date to be counted from October 31, 2020 to September 30, 2020.   Currently, the City of Pasadena is at 65.5%, which is about 6% below the City’s 2010 self-response rate.   The City needs everyone to really push out messaging on census in the coming weeks. 

New Pasadena Chamber member PopID no-contact facial recognition point-of-sale system, temperature-taking technology and more sponsors our networking Luncheon Alliance on Wednesday August 12th at 11:30am. Learn how you can protect your workers and customers by utilizing a facial recognition payment system and the other items offered by PopID.

As of Saturday, there had been 554,048 reported cases in California with 10, 315 deaths due to Coronavirus and 6,956 current hospitalizatons. There are reports that technical issues with compliation software may have led to a significant undercount. In Los Angeles County there were 2645 new cases the past week and 51 more fatalities. In LA County there have been 206,761 cases and 4,967 deaths so far. 

Covid-19 deaths in the United States topped 1,000 for four days straight this past week, according to

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is disseminating a survey that looks at how the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting small and medium enterprises (SMEs), how these SMEs are adapting to the current circumstances, and how this may or may not be connected to broader weather-related stressors they may face. The focus is to inform Federal agencies as they continue to provide information and assistance.

Pasadena saw its biggest week yet in terms of new reported COVID-19 infections as the city announced 35 newly confirmed infections on Friday. That brought the week’s total to 214 cases over seven days since July 18, surpassing the previous record — which occurred just last week — when 183 new infections were reported. No new COVID-19-related deaths were reported Friday, according to city spokeswoman Lisa Derderian.

It may not be a surprise, but scammers are posing as contact tracers to get your personal identifying information during the COVID-19 health crisis. They're looking for social security numbers or financial information, such as your bank account number.