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LA County Reports Highest Single Day Number Of New COVID-19 Cases Since August
PPE hangs near the entrance to a COVID-19 testing site in Echo Park. (Chava Sanchez/LAist)
Los Angeles County reported its highest single day number of new coronavirus cases since August on Wednesday.
More than 1,600 cases were recorded, pushing the total number to 277,445 in all.
Overall, though, case numbers are at their lowest point since early May, and the county's testing positivity rate now meets the threshold to move into the next tier of the state's reopening plan.
L.A. County is also meeting the state's new equity metric, meaning transmission is slowing in the county's lowest-resourced areas.
Public health director Barbara Ferrer says that doesn't mean we will actually be moving to a new tier anytime soon, however:
"What is standing in our way to advancing to a higher tier, the red tier, is that we continue to see more than the average of 700 to 800 new cases a day."
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