LOS ANGELES (CBSLA)— The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported 2,593 newly validated cases of the unique coronavirus and 13 deaths Monday, bringing countywide overalls to 136,129 cases and 3,822 deaths.
Clients practice social distancing while waiting in line to order food at Ghost Pizza on July 10 in Los Angeles. Ghost Pizza, the Melrose Opportunity walk-up pizzeria, adapts to running during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Image by Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images)
The department likewise reported it continued to see proof of increased community spread of COVID-19 with 2,056 people hospitalized– 28%of which remained in extensive care systems and 20%of which were on ventilators. The positivity rate, the variety of people who test favorable for COVID-19, stayed constant at 9%with more than 1.3 million individuals evaluated.
News of the continued surge came as Gov. Gavin Newsom bought the closure of all indoor operations at restaurants, bars, gyms, churches, shopping centers, and other places in 30 counties statewide– including Los Angeles, Riverside, and Orange– in an effort to slow transmission of the illness.
To assist slow the spread of #COVID19, the following sectors need to stop indoor operations effective July13 Find out more at https://t.co/nvJN7HPEk0 pic.twitter.com/cjdaAw5czr
— Los Angeles County (@CountyofLA) July 13, 2020
” We will follow the assistance that the state gives us to impose these new state requirements and we’ll modify our own health officer order,” Dr. Barbara Ferrer, county public health director, stated throughout a Monda