Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Monday the city’s COVID-19 threat gauge is “on the verge of turning red,” the highest level, which would mean a complete shutdown in Los Angeles due to the pandemic. of coronavirus.
“Let me tell you the bad news,” said Garcetti. “We have never had so many people [in L.A.] Infected or Infectious We have never had so many positive cases recorded each day, and we have never had as many people in the hospital as there are tonight while I speak to you. “
As of now, Garcetti said during his daily press conference, the threat level remains “orange,” even as California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered all counties Monday morning to shutdown interior operations for its restaurants, cinemas, wineries, zoos and bars as cases. It continued to increase in the state, forcing a return to safer, more restrictive orders in the home.
Garcetti, who called for Newsom’s actions to reduce correct movement, said those measures are effective immediately in LA “Don’t throw a party, don’t attend a meeting, don’t treat this as a normal summer break,” Garcetti said. “This virus is not taking the summer off, and we can’t afford it either.”
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“I know how difficult it is for business owners, employees and the general public,” said the mayor. He later reminded residents that this country has suffered from world wars and the horror of slavery before saying that this crisis pales in comparison.
“We can make this little sacrifice,” Garcetti encouraged. “We can wear a mask. We can clean our hands. We can keep 6 feet between us. “
“And by doing so,” he continued, “we can speed up the day when we are back at school, and our economy is rumbling and we can rebuild our prosperity.”
“This city will not stop working for you,” Garcetti promised. I have no doubt that we will get through this together. But each of us needs to do our part. ”
The city today reported 964 of Los Angeles County’s 2,593 new cases of COVID-19, with a notable jump in cases for ages 18-40 – 50% of new cases and the highest number of infections among any group. old.
There is now a record total of 2,103 hospitalizations in the county, with 766 beds remaining. On Monday there was an increase of 565 patients in the ICU compared to 397 a month ago, Garcetti said. There are currently 141 ICU beds left in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The number of beds available in the ICU seems to have increased, since Friday, even as the number of people occupying them has increased. This is supposed to mean that part of the region’s surge bed inventory has been put into service.
The county now has 136,129 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the 20th largest in any country and more than all of Canada. The number of deaths across the county is 3,822, with 13 new deaths reported across the county today.
Garcetti announced an increase in testing, from 80,000 last week to 100,000 this week. That’s a 20 percent increase, but that’s in a county that has 10 million residents.
Check out Garcetti’s press conference below.
