By City News Service
May 1, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Los Angeles County has again eased its COVID-19 health restrictions, allowing indoor playgrounds and arcades to reopen at limited capacity, while lifting restrictions on operating hours for bars, breweries and wineries.
Indoor arcades and playgrounds such as laser tag businesses, ball pits or ``bounce centers will be restricted to 25% capacity, along with other mandated safety modifications.
Bars, which are currently allowed to operate outdoors only, had been restricted to operating hours of 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., but those restrictions are now lifted.
The easing of restrictions, however, comes amid continued concern about the slowing pace of vaccinations in the county. In a statement Friday, county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer again stressed the urgency for people to get inoculated, while also continuing to adhere to other health guidelines to prevent a resurgence of the virus locally.
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Gone are the people in beach chairs, pecking away at their MacBooks and adjusting their AirPods while they wait hours in hopes of scoring a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Also gone is the line for appointments that for months had wrapped around the block, often before sunrise.
The narrow street with the entrance to Kedren Community Health Center is now mostly empty, though the neighborhood kids are still out in force, waving hopefully to passing drivers to get them to park in a driveway for $15.
On Thursday, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health officials repeated what they had been saying for days that even though coronavirus cases continue to decline, they are worried because the demand for vaccines is declining too, opening the door for a deadly resurgence.
The relative lack of reluctance has been a boon for the state's inoculation campaign though a Times analysis shows some conservative rural areas remain more disinclined to get the shots.
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The L.A. County Department of Public Health has revised a pandemic health order to align itself with new federal guidance that eased rules on when fully vaccinated people should wear masks.
The updated health order, which goes into effect Friday, states that unless they are in crowded settings, fully vaccinated people don’t need to wear a mask when outdoors alone, with members of their household or with a small group of fully vaccinated people. They also can go without a mask when intermingling with a small group of people who are not fully vaccinated but not at high risk for experiencing serious illness or death from the coronavirus.