Statewide in California, the transmission rate of COVID-19 has stabilized or is falling, and hospitalization rates are also dropping.
showed that the total included 61 that occurred in restaurants or bars; 45 in various businesses; and 18 in healthcare settings. Ten outbreaks occurred in government settings, nine in residences, eight in gyms, seven in faith-based settings, six in food-processing facilities, six in grocery facilities, five in hotels or resorts or spas, and four at preschools.
L.A. County has reported 30,827 new coronavirus cases in the last two weeks, which amounts to 305 new cases per 100,000 residents. The county will need to reduce that number to 200 new cases per 100,000 residents over a two-week period before local officials can contemplate allowing some elementary schools to reopen, and it will have to be down to 100 new cases per 100,000 residents to allow a further reopening of the economy.Ferrer said she didn’t know when L.A.
County officials said videos posted of religious services this month show congregants gathering without wearing masks or staying socially distant from one another. The church issued aSome of the larger outbreaks in L.A. County include those identified at 10 UPS work sites, including in L.A., Bell, Gardena, Vernon, Cerritos, Sylmar and Van Nuys, in which 84 workers have tested positive; and at the SoFi Stadium construction site in Inglewood, where 77 workers have tested positive.
At Trojan Battery Co. in Santa Fe Springs, 61 workers at two worksites have tested positive; three have been hospitalized, and one worker died, said L.A. County health officer Dr. Muntu Davis.
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