Re-Opening Dates For Nail Salons, Indoor Malls Announced By Los Angeles County

Posted by: KHTS Newsroom in Coronavirus, Santa Clarita Latest News October 1, 2020 - 2:09 pm 1 Comment 6,587 Views

The re-opening dates for indoor operations of nail salons and malls have been announced Thursday by Los Angeles County.

Starting Thursday, Oct. 1 nail salons in Los Angeles County are able to re-open indoor operations with a limited 25 percent capacity, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

Next week on Oct. 7, indoor malls are allowed to re-open with occupancy limited to 25 percent capacity. All food courts and all common areas have to remain closed, according to public health officials.

Outdoor public playgrounds are expected to re-open, upon the approval of local parks and recreation departments.

Public Health is consulting with County Counsel to determine the process and date for re-opening outdoor operations at breweries and wineries serving a meal. The department anticipates this process will be completed in a week.

“As more sectors reopen and more students attend in-person classes in L.A. County, we must be sure that every business or sector that is re-opening complies with 100 percent of the safety directives,” said Dr. Barbara Ferrer, director of public health. “If the new re-openings result in increased community transmission, our recovery journey may need to slow down.”

School waivers for transitional kindergarten to second-grade students are also set to be accepted starting Oct. 5, but is limited to 30 schools a week prioritizing schools with a high number of low-income students, according to the department.

1,148 new positive cases reported Thursday brings the Los Angeles County case total to 271,371, according to public health.

35 additional deaths have been reported Thursday, bringing the cumulative total in L.A. County to 6,610, according to the department.

The timeline for the next tier of Los Angeles County reopening has been set back by a slight increase in the 7-day average of coronavirus cases, according to Ferrer.

Although Los Angeles County met the State’s metric thresholds for Tier 2 last week, L.A. County remains in Tier 1 due to the current adjusted daily case rate of 7.3 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 2.9 percent which places the County in Tier 3 for this metric, according to public health.

The testing positivity is the lowest since the pandemic reached L.A. County in March, according to Ferrer.

There are 746 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 and 27 percent of these people are in the ICU.

As of Thursday, a total of 6,129 cumulative cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the Santa Clarita Valley since testing began in March. This indicates that there are 41 new cases since Wednesday. These include:

3,552 in the City of Santa Clarita*
139 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country
2,083 in Castaic*
28 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus
170 in Stevenson Ranch
46 in the unincorporated areas of Valencia
78 in the unincorporated areas of Val Verde
14 in the unincorporated areas of Newhall
Nine in the unincorporated areas of Bouquet Canyon
Three in the unincorporated areas of Saugus/Canyon Country
Seven in unincorporated Sand Canyon

*As of Wednesday, Sept 30, officials had recorded 1347 cumulative cases among prisoners at the North County Correctional Facility, and 500 at the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center. Those cases are counted in both the City of Santa Clarita and Castaic totals.

Additionally, 72 cumulative cases have been confirmed in nearby Acton as well as 28 in Agua Dulce.

An analysis of available data indicates that as of Wednesday, Sept. 30, approximately 30.3 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, Sept, 30, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital has conducted 8,453 COVID-19 tests. Of those, 899 have tested positive, and 26 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 262 patients have been discharged since the hospital’s first case was reported in March, according to Moody.

One additional COVID-19 death was confirmed at Henry Mayo Friday, bringing the hospital’s total to 24 and the Santa Clarita Valley’s total to 58, according to health officials.

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