Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said the county’s seven-day average of daily deaths was 179 on Jan. 10, dropping to 174 on Jan. 12. But on Wednesday,.
UK COVID-19 variant in Southern California, but not L.A. yet
Dec. 31, 2020 at 6:00 am
Shortly after Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the new variant of the coronavirus is circulating somewhere in Southern California, leaders of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said no trace has been found in L.A. County to date.
“Our public health lab completed genome sequencing on 26 positive test samples, and we did not find any evidence of the U.K. under investigation… But this doesn’t mean that the variant is not circulating in L.A. County,” Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer said during a media briefing Wednesday. “We have thousands and thousands of people getting tested every day and we’re just able to sample a small number of those tests results and do the gene sequencing. What it means is, as of right now, we didn’t find this variant in the first set of samples.”
UpdatedThu, Dec 24, 2020 at 9:18 am PT
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Los Angeles County Wednesday reported its highest number of coronavirus-related deaths since the start of the pandemic. (Cesc Maymo/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA Los Angeles County reported 145 coronavirus-related deaths Wednesday, the highest single-day number of the entire pandemic.
The county also announced another 16,525 cases, while the number of people hospitalized is 6,155, although the state estimated the county s hospital number at 6,499 as of Wednesday.
The transmission rate of COVID-19 in Los Angeles County is now estimated at 1.11, representing the average number of people a COVID-19 patient infects with the virus. The rate is down from last week s estimate of 1.2. The county s modeling now suggests that about 1 in every 95 residents who aren t hospitalized or in quarantine are infected with the virus and capable of spreading it. That compares with last week s estimate of 1 in 80. The county continues to estimate
Record Number Of COVID-19 Cases, Deaths Reported In Los Angeles County Amid ‘Explosive’ Surge
Over 21,000 new cases of COVID-19 cases were reported within Los Angeles County Wednesday, along with over 130 COVID-19-related deaths, marking the highest daily number for both metrics.
An additional 22,422 coronavirus cases were reported in Los Angeles County on Wednesday, along with 138 deaths, according to Dr. Barbara Ferrer, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
“I want to acknowledge that we’re experiencing an explosive and very deadly surge and there’s urgency in our request that everyone does all that’s in their power to slow transmission and prevent additional suffering,” Ferrer said Wednesday.
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