Los Angeles County Lifting Covid Restrictions For Indoor Concerts & Sports Events

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Los Angeles County will align with the state and lift the requirement that attendees of indoor mega-events such as sporting events or concerts show proof of Covid vaccination or a negative test, L.A.

health officials said today.According to the County Department of Public Health, the requirement will be lifted April 1 in conjunction with the state, which is also scrapping the mandate.The move follows the lifting of other Covid restrictions in the county — such as indoor mask-wearing requirements — in response to dwindling infection and hospitalization numbers.But county health officials continued to urge precautionary steps against virus spread, noting that the BA.2 subvariant of COVID-19 is slowly beginning to expand locally, and will likely gain a stronger foothold in the county, mirroring the pattern seen overseas and in some East Coast cities.During the week ending Feb.

26, 6.4% of all Covid specimens that were analyzed for variants turned out to be the result of BA.2, which is a more-infectious offshoot of the Omicron variant that fueled the recent winter surge in infections.

That was up from 4.5% the week prior.Health officials noted that while the percentage is still low, it finally beginning to climb meaningfully after hovering around 1% for weeks.