By City News Service
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Los Angeles County has officially qualified for a move to the least-restrictive yellow tier of the state economic-reopening blueprint, meaning capacity limits will be increased at many businesses and bars will be permitted to reopen indoors.
Weekly statistics released by the state Tuesday showed the county s rate of daily new COVID-19 infections had fallen to 1.6 per 100,000 residents, down from 1.9 last week. Reaching the yellow tier of the state s Blueprint for a Safer Economy requires a county to have a new-case rate less than 2 per 100,000 residents, and maintain that level for two consecutive weeks.
Myriam Borzee/iStock(LOS ANGELES) When a woman in her 30s showed up in his Los Angeles County hospital emergency room this week with a fever, racing heart rate and a sore throat, Dr. Darien Sutton said his first thought was that she had contracted COVID-19. But after taking the necessary precautions and conducting tests, it turned out the patient had a routine urinary tract infection. "It was so shocking because at the end of the day, I was like, 'I forgot there are other things that cause fevers, chills and sore throat.' You had to stop and remember other infections are now coming back," Sutton told ABC News. The interaction was another signal that COVID-19 infections are continuing to dramatically plummet in Los Angeles County. The county of more than 10 million people reported zero COVID-related deaths on Sunday and Monday, and the number of new infections fell to 255, the lowest since the pandemic began more than a year ago. The hopeful streak of zero-death da
L.A. County plans to issue a health order permitting wider reopenings that will go into effect Thursday as it reaches the state's COVID-19 reopening plan yellow tier.
In the yellow tier, Los Angeles and San Francisco counties can throw their economic doors farther open than has been permitted since March 2020.
Pedestrians walk through Los Angeles’ Chinatown on the same day the state announced the county will enter the least restrictive health tier since the Covid-19 pandemic began. (Courthouse News/ Nathan Solis)
LOS ANGELES (CN) The rate of new Covid-19 cases in Los Angeles and San Francisco counties dropped below an important threshold Tuesday, allowing them to enter the least restrictive health tier under the state’s guidelines.
Officials in both counties say new health orders allowing more businesses to reopen will take effect starting Thursday the largest reopening of their economies since the pandemic began.