Los Angeles County Public Health officials on Wednesday confirmed 256 new deaths and 5,189 new cases of COVID-19 countywide, as Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia reported two new deaths.
The Santa Clarita Valley has now seen a total of 24,291 total cases 128 more cases since Tuesday and 214 deaths since L.A. county’s first confirmed COVID-19 infection on January 26, 2020.
Test results are now available for more than 5,543,000 people, with 19% testing positive.
There are 5,165 people hospitalized with COVID-19, and 27% of these patients are in the ICU.
To date, Public Health officials have identified 1,129,503 positive cases of COVID-19 and a total of 17,308 deaths countywide.
By City News Service
Feb 4, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - People Assisting the Homeless, among the state s largest nonprofits working to end homelessness, announced today that it has received nearly $1 million in grants to increase awareness of its Los Angeles-based LeaseUp program.
LeaseUp launched three years ago with the support of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority enables property owners with vacant units to connect with service providers like PATH and with prospective renters. The program helps transition formerly homeless people into vacant units, benefiting renters and owners alike. Since 2018, LeaseUp said it has secured more than 4,000 units of subsidized rental units from more than 600 property owners and managers for Angelenos either experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
Updated on February 2, 2021 at 5:21 am
A fed up federal judge in California said last week s rainstorm created “extraordinarily harsh” conditions for homeless residents of Los Angeles, prompting him to order city officials to meet with him at a Skid Row shelter to discuss how to address the worsening crisis of people living on the streets.
“These conditions cannot be allowed to continue!” U.S. District Judge David Carter wrote in a strongly worded order on Sunday. The action involves a lawsuit filed last March by the LA Alliance for Human Rights, which accused officials in greater Los Angeles of failing to comprehensively address the homelessness problem.