Los Angeles ordered to close some of the businesses that had reopened, but still not enough to control the advance of the pandemic

Los Angeles in crisis: Exceeds 150,000 cases and 4,000 deaths from COVID-19

Los Angeles had three days with a record of new cases in the week.

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Los Angeles, the most populous county in the United States with almost 10 million people, continues this Saturday unable to control the progression of the coronavirus surpassing two grim records with more than 150,000 positive cases and 4,000 infected who lost their lives.

The positive rate of cases in the last seven days in this area reached 9%, 1.6% more than the rate reported by the entire state of California (7.4%).

With 62 deaths reported this Friday, Los Angeles raised the number of deaths to 4,047, while positive cases reached 150,319 infected.

The Mayor of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti said Friday night in a televised conference that It has delayed the closing of more businesses to assess whether the restrictions imposed at the beginning of the week are working.

The service inside beauty salons, gyms, museums and churches, among others, joined other previously implemented prohibitions, trying to control the regrowth experienced by the area and the state after the economic reopening.

Los Angeles is still the focus of contagion in California, which records 366,164 positive cases and 7,475 deaths.

This week, Los Angeles had “three record days of more cases than we’ve seen before,” said the mayor, noting that each of those days exceeded the record of the previous day.

Hospitalizations are still a concern for the authorities in Los Angeles when 2,122 infected are in a medical institution, which represents almost a third of all hospitalized in the state that number 6,808.

Health authorities are investigating dozens of outbreaks in factories. One of the biggest infections was registered at the Los Angeles Apparel company, where at least 375 employees, most of them Latino, were infected and four died.

The company has almost 2,300 employees and remains closed.

Garcetti warned that the city is still teetering on the brink of a “red” coronavirus alert level.If they crossed the threshold, residents would face stricter local orders to stay home and potentially more business closings.

The number of cases in the United States exceeded 3,670,000 this Saturday, while deaths amounted to more than 139,700, according to the independent count by Johns Hopkins University.

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