Los Angeles has crossed a grim landmark of more than 25,000 Covid-19 deaths with a daily count of 35 fatalities, local health authorities said. The Department said that there were 1,790 people with Covid-19 currently hospitalized in the county in California and 23 percent of them are in the intensive care units, as per reports.
The most crowded county in the US home to over 10 million residents, also reported 3,239 new cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the overall tally since the start of the pandemic to 1,362,848 positive cases with 25,002 related deaths, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. The county's one-week cumulative case rate is now 204.2 new cases per 100,000 residents, which represents a 5 percent increase from last week. Between July 11 and August 11, hospitalizations rose by 333 percent to an average of 1,622 beds filled with people testing positive on any given day, and deaths rose 275 percent to an average of 15 deaths per day, said the Department.
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced last week that the state would implement a first-in-the-nation measure to require all teachers and school staff to get vaccinated as schools return from summer break amid the Delta variant spread. Official data showed that around 63 percent of nearly 10.3 million Los Angeles County residents have received at least one dose, and 55 percent have been fully vaccinated.
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