By Tom Tapp Deputy Managing Editor The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health confirmed 56 new deaths and 1,541 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday.
That’s nearly 1,000 more new infections than were announced on Tuesday. L.A. County Director of Public Health Dr. Barbara Ferrer attributed this jump to new testing in institutional settings and also a lag in test results over the weekend.
To date, the county has identified 22,485 positive cases of COVID-19 and 1,056 deaths from the virus. While both California Governor Gavin Newsom and the L.A.
County Board of Supervisors have announced steps toward reopening, Dr. Christina Ghaly, Director of L.A. County Health services, warned that “physical distancing will be our new normal for some
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