More Long Beach residents are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccines.
Starting tomorrow, people 16+ with underlying health conditions will be able to get vaccinated — the city started offering vaccines to people with disabilities on Monday.
That news came as Long Beach Unified officials announced this afternoon that the city's health department has approved back-to-school plans for the district, which is one of the largest in the state. Under those plans:
All families have been asked to choose between in-person and distance learning, with some of those surveys still in progress for the upper grades.
Long Beach also started making shots available this week to more essential workers this week: city employees, transit and airport workers, and custodians and janitors.
"Everything is going in the right direction," Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia said.
"We were averaging 740 cases a day, we're down to 31. And our positivity rate has gone from 17.4% to 2.3, so really dramatic changes."
State guidelines allow indoor dining when counties enter the red tier, but health departments can make their own decisions on when to allow it. The Los Angeles County public health department hasn't said yet if they'll allow indoor dining. Long Beach has it's own health department.
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