This city could soon close again at the strictest level, "says mayor
The warning came before another record day of covidation and hospitalizations.
Thecoronavirus pandemic continues rabies throughout the United States, forcing somestates hard affected Take drastic measurements to try to get their epidemics under control. In some cases, more concentrated areas have been particularly ravaged by the virus. Los Angeles County - which has been recently identified as one of the four newepicenter of the pandemic In the country - has trouble containing Covid. With case numbers and hospitalizations reaching new heights, the mayor of Los AngelesEric Garcetti Now says that the city may have to turn off again.
"While the city of Los Angeles' Covid-19 level of threat remains in Orange, we are on the border to go red," Garcetti said at a press conference on July 13, as indicated speakLos Angeles Times. "The red is wheneverything closes again at our most stringent level. I want to warn the people we are close to that. "
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Trying to convey the reality of the situation, Garcetti spoke of STARK terms on the need for immediate action - in this case, each complying with measures to mitigate the spread of the virus, such as social distancing and the port of masks . He noted that there were more cases in Los Angeles County than across Canada. And while themortality rate Did not resurrect significantly, hospitalizations are at ICU beds and fans of all time.
"We have never had so many people at the hospital because there is tonight in Los Angeles," Garcetti said.
Earlier in the day on July 13, the governor of CaliforniaGavin Newsom announced that he wasEnd of indoor dining roomAs well as the closure of gyms, salons, places of worship and other companies in 30 particularly troubled counties, including Los Angeles.
But it will take time before it becomes clear if these restrictions are effective in slowing down the propagation of coronavirus. Since Newoms and Garcetti press conferences, Covid's figures in Los Angeles climbed even higher. As theThat time Reports, 14 July recorded a record number of new cases (4,244) and coronavirus hospitalizations (2,103), or 27% of them in intensive care. There were also 73 deaths of Covid.
To date, there were more than 140,300Case of Aspace to Los Angeles, according toThe New York Times"Data and nearly 3,900 deaths. As these figures rise quickly, Garcetti said that it will take a collective effort to prevent the city from slipping "Orange" into "red" - and triggers another complete stop. "It's all we do not do it," he said. And for more places on the point of another lock, check these7 states that are directed to a "complete stop".