The increase in cases is reinforced and health officials recall that people must take measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus
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Los Angeles County health officials reported Saturday 3,628 new cases of COVID-19 and 53 related deaths, high figures which in part reflect delays in reporting to the state’s electronic lab system.
The higher case numbers are, in part, due to a resolution in the State of California electronic lab system and inclusion of backlogged positive results.
COVID-19 Daily Update:
July 25, 2020
Cases: 3,628 (172,325 to date)
Deaths: 53 (4,351 to date)
Current Hospitalization: 2,016 pic.twitter.com/gJhSdtdJ4p– LA Public Health (@lapublichealth) July 25, 2020
The total number of cases in the county now stands at 172,325, with 4,351 cumulative deaths, authorities said in a statement.
There are 446,148 confirmed cases in California, and 8,406 people have died across the state.
Most of the new positive cases in Los Angeles County are occurring in people under the age of 50, authorities said.
Also on Saturday, authorities reported that there are 2,016 confirmed patients with COVID-19 in county hospitals, with 30% of those in intensive care.
But they said those numbers were incomplete because the US Department of Health and Human Services has changed reporting requirements, which resulted in that data from eight hospitals were omitted.
On Friday, the Dr. Deborah Birx, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, compared the current increase in cases in California, Texas and Florida with “three New York”, referring to the previous epicenter of the nation’s COVID-19 crisis.
Brix, who spoke in an interview on NBC’s “Today,” said the increase in cases It has been powered by people in their 20s and 30s who had no symptoms and were unknowingly spreading the virus.
White House task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx talks to @SavannahGuthrie about the rising coronavirus cases in states including Florida, Texas and California.
“What we have right now are essentially three New Yorks with these three major states,” she says. pic.twitter.com/mczzED47NX
– TODAY (@TODAYshow) July 24, 2020
