FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
Students work on after-school enrichment lessons at Rio Vista Elementary School on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, in El Monte, California. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
California schools can safely move to reopen, Newsom says
LOS ANGELES Gov. Gavin Newsom said he believes California schools can begin to reopen even if all teachers are not yet vaccinated against Covid-19, provided that proper safety measures and supports are in place although some teachers unions, including United Teachers Los Angeles, have said vaccinations should be a prerequisite to resuming in-person instruction.
“We can safely reopen schools as we process a prioritization to our teachers of vaccinations,” Newsom said Wednesday.
By City News Service
Major COVID-19 Vaccination Site Situated At Six Flags Parking Lot Near LA
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Los Angeles County health officials say they plan to make targeted efforts in coming weeks to get COVID-19 vaccinations to particularly vulnerable residents but that while the vaccine program is progressing, there are continued issues with ineligible people trying to jump the line to get a shot.
“There was a big issue for parents of children who are disabled and they were serving as certified health care workers, county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Wednesday. “There was a letter that was just sort of a generic letter, it had nobody s name on it. Lots of people were Xeroxing it, frankly, lots of people were using it inappropriately to claim they were in fact the health caretakers of their children.
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – San Diego County Health Officer Dr. Wilma Wooten announced the county will step up enforcement over Super Bowl weekend.
Dr. Wilma Wooten said Los Angeles County’s decision to ban restaurants from turning on their TVs, “makes perfect sense,” but San Diego County has not yet made that decision.
The county’s revised Health Officer Order also reinstates previous restrictions on outdoor dining, requiring servers to wear masks and face shields, limiting restaurants to 50% of patio capacity, limiting tables to no more than six people and requiring tables to be at least eight feet apart.
But the order also states: “Televisions or any other screens that are used to broadcast programming must be removed from the area or turned off. This provision is effective until further notice.”
By City News Service
Feb 3, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Daily COVID-19 case numbers continue tumbling in Los Angeles County, but the death toll has climbed above the 17,000 mark, with more than 200 new fatalities.
The county Department of Public Health announced 205 virus deaths on Tuesday, while Long Beach reported 13 fatalities and Pasadena added seven, raising the countywide cumulative total from throughout the pandemic to 17,077. Health officials noted that more than 7,000 COVID deaths have been reported over the past month, matching the total number of virus deaths that occurred between February and October of last year.
But while fatalities mounted in response to the winter surge of cases that began in November, the number of newly confirmed infections continued to fall. The county announced 3,763 new infections on Tuesday, down substantially from the early January totals that regularly topped 10,000.