Long Beach reported seven new deaths from coronarvirus on Tuesday, the highest death toll in a single day that wasn’t due to backlogs in reporting.

Los Angeles County, meanwhile, reported 86 news deaths from the virus, the highest single day total since the summer surge in July.

The county also reported another 11,194 have tested positive for the virus, bringing the total to 543,769 cases. The county death total is now 8,431.

Long Beach reported a large tally of new cases on Tuesday, 898, though it said in a release that some of these were due to a backlog at the state level from last week.

Health officials have been warning for weeks that the high caseloads seen over the past three weeks would soon materialize in hospitals and in morgues.

In all, Long Beach has seen 302 fatalities since the start of the pandemic. None of the deaths over the past day were among residents of nursing homes, which were hit hard when the pandemic first began in March.

Hospitalizations, meanwhile, continue to climb. County officials reported 4,403 people with coronavirus are in the hospital, and officials said Monday they expect that number to eclipse 5,000 next week.

In Long Beach, 294 people are hospitalized in the five medical facilities that serve the city.

According to the state, the Southern California Region has 1.7% ICU capacity remaining.

 “We must all work together to prevent as many hospitalizations and deaths as possible while we wait for the COVID-19 vaccine to be widely available,” Barbara Ferrer, director of the county Department of Public Health, said in a statement.

“I ask that everyone stay strong and focus all efforts to stop the surge.”