County kills 37 as authorities seek to stem virus spread
A health specialist works on conducting tests in a laboratory.
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Numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases continue to rise in The Angels, on Sunday afternoon the authorities of the Department of Public Health they offered a balance in which they reported more than 300 new positive cases and the death of five people, raising the figure to more than 2,100 infected and 37 dead.
Mayor, Eric Garcetti, reported that the Convention Center The city will become a medical station to help purify the city's hospitals. Last week the arrival of the hospital ship USNS Mercy to the port of L.A. sumo 1,000 beds to the collapsed health system.
The mayor highlighted that in the county more than 6,700 tests virus detection until last Thursday and he hopes to bring that figure to 13,000 tests during this week.
U.S is the country with more cases in the world, passing the 140,000 of which more than 5,000 are in the state of California. Recently, President Donald Trump announced the extension of emergency measures until May 1.
