Officials visited roughly 2,000 restaurants over the weekend and found that half of them were not in compliance with the county's guidelines.
over the past few weeks across the state, many demanding police reforms in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
“We don’t have any way of tracking that information,” Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Monday about the difficulty in pinpointing the exact path of transmission from public areas.related to the virus in the state. Nearly half of the number of cases are in Los Angeles County, which also accounts for nearly 60% of all deaths. Officials reported Monday an additional 19 deaths and 1,071 cases in the county.Instead, officials are encouraging residents to take a proactive approach.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that the state continues to make progress in the fight, but warned that the virus remains a threat.overall case counts are not necessarily a measure“We’ve ramped up testing in an extraordinary way, nearly hitting our goal that was set for August — not June, not July, but August — of getting to 60,000 to 80,000 tests a day,” Ghaly said. “We’re already knocking on that door, averaging in the mid- to high 50s over the past few days across the state.
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