Family entertainment centers within Los Angeles County are set to be allowed to re-open their outdoor operations, along with updating guidelines for educational cohorts and breweries, officials announced Wednesday.

During the county’s weekly COVID-19 update, Supervisor Kathryn Barger announced that the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health would be updated “later this week” to allow family entertainment centers to re-open outdoor operations.

“I hope this provides much-needed relief and respite for residents who are looking for some activities outside of their homes,” Barger said. “These updates will also bring more employees back to work.”

Businesses that fall under the county’s definition of a “family entertainment center” include bowling alleys, miniature golf, batting cages and arcades.

Additionally, Barger announced that educational cohorts were allowed to bring back up to 25 percent of their “high-need students” for in-person learning, an increase from the previous 10 percent originally allowed by the county.

“Throughout this process, the county monitored schools that re-opened to inform our progress to advance further,” Barger said. “We will now increase to 25 percent capacity for high-need students, so more children and youth can have access to their teachers and the on-site support systems that are so critical for their growth and for their education.”

Barger also announced that wineries within Los Angeles County would no longer need to require customers to order food or reserve a seat ahead of time.

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An additional 510 Los Angeles coronavirus cases have been reported Wednesday, bringing the countywide total to 290,486, according to Dr. Barbara Ferrer, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

33 additional deaths were reported Wednesday, bringing the cumulative total in L.A. County to 6,944 deaths, according to the department.

The low number of cases reported Wednesday reflects a lag in testing from over the weekend, according to public health officials.

An estimated over 2,800,000 coronavirus tests have been conducted as of Wednesday, with about 9 percent of those tests returning positive.

Although Los Angeles County met the State’s metric thresholds for Tier 2 last month, L.A. County remains in Tier 1 due to the current adjusted daily case rate of 7.6 cases per 100,000 residents.

Per the State guidelines, to move to Tier 2, the County’s case rate needs to be 7 or fewer new cases a day per 100,000 residents for two consecutive weeks. The County’s test positivity rate is 3.4 percent which places the County in Tier 3 for this metric, according to public health.

There are 758 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 as of Wednesday, 28 percent of which are in the ICU.

As of Wednesday, a total of 6,690 cumulative cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the Santa Clarita Valley since testing began in March. These include:

• 3,971 in the City of Santa Clarita*
• 163 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country
• 2,153 in Castaic*
• 28 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus
• 189 in Stevenson Ranch
• 52 in the unincorporated areas of Valencia
• 91 in the unincorporated areas of Val Verde
• 15 in the unincorporated areas of Newhall
• 11 in the unincorporated areas of Bouquet Canyon
• 10 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus/Canyon Country
• Seven in unincorporated Sand Canyon

As of Tuesday, Oct. 20, officials had recorded 1,361 cumulative cases among prisoners at the North County Correctional Facility, and 513 at the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center. Those cases are distributed between both the City of Santa Clarita and Castaic totals.

Additionally, 77 cumulative cases were confirmed in nearby Acton as well as 30 in Agua Dulce.

An analysis of available data indicates that as of Tuesday, Oct. 20, approximately 28.1 percent of all cumulative cases in and around the Santa Clarita Valley can be attributed to the inmate population at the North County Correctional Facility and the Pitchess Detention Center.

As of Wednesday, Oct. 21, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital has conducted 9,693 COVID-19 tests. Of those, 997 have tested positive, and 44 tests are still pending with Henry Mayo, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson for the hospital.

There are 12 patients in the hospital as of Wednesday, while 290 patients have been discharged since the hospital’s first case was reported in March, according to Moody.

One additional death at Henry Mayo was reported Tuesday, with a total of 30 COVID-19 deaths having been reported at Henry Mayo, bringing Santa Clarita Valley’s total to at least 72, according to public health officials.

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Ed. Note: These numbers are subject to change based on further investigation by Los Angeles County public health officials. As of Wednesday, 33 cases and one death previously reported were not in Public Health’s jurisdiction.

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