On Thursday, Los Angeles County, health officials imposed a new COVID-19 pandemic order that prohibits by law and authority all public and private gatherings. This new order is aimed at slowing the unprecedented surge of coronavirus cases. The new order comes as Los Angeles County faces its worst crisis of the pandemic.
In the recent weeks, the number of quotidian coronavirus cases quadrupled, while hospitalizations and daily deaths have tripled. Los Angeles County has reported and is now averaging more than four thousand (4,000) new coronavirus cases per day, according to the Los Angeles Times for the coronavirus in the County.
California is now giving consideration to another stay-at-home order for counties where coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and hospitalizations rates are rapidly increasing, Governor Gavin Newsom said Monday in a COVID-19 news press conference for November 30, 2020.
With California experiencing a heavy caseload of higher than the summertime surge, Newsom said his administration was assessing whether to impose new curtailments and restrictions similar to the March shelter-in-place that was a requirement for Californians to stay where they are except for absolutely necessary; extremely important essential activities and exercise.
“The red flags are flying in terms of the trajectory in our projections of growth,” Newsom said at the CaliforniaCOVID-19 Update. “If these trends continue, we’re going to have to take much more dramatic arguably drastic action,” Newsom continued.
Newsom spoke on the state’s coronavirus numbers and warned that “If these trends continue, we’re going to have to take much more dramatic, arguably drastic action. If these trends continue, the potential for a stay-at-home order for those areas in the Purple; more in line with the stay-at-home order that folks were familiar with at the beginning of the year.”
Monday’s update projected over 99% of California’s population was in the Purple, or most severe, tier of Newsom’s reopening order. In terms of the timing of the orders, Newsome said “Those are being assessed in real time,” before giving particular emphasis and importance of not to think in terms of weeks, but days.
There were 14,034 confirmed new cases reported on Monday. California recorded a 6.2% positivity rate over the past 14 days. There were 20 new deaths reported on Monday for a total of 19,167 fatalities. California Public Health confirmed COVID-19 cases to date: 1,212,968.
“We anticipate, given Thanksgiving gatherings, that we will see another surge in cases,” said Governor Gavin Newsom.
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