With the state’s decision to remove COVID-19 restrictions on indoor capacities in June, Santa Clarita restaurants had two months to deconstruct outdoor dining setups which ended on Monday. As tents surrounded Santa Clarita restaurants throughout the coronavirus pandemic, expanded outdoor dining became a temporary solution to boost the local economy and accommodate socially distanced dining, but the temporary-use permits expired ...

Public health officials are urging residents to avoid gathering with those outside their household as coronavirus cases rise in Los Angeles County, officials said.  As COVID-19 continues to spread throughout L.A. County communities, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health urges participation with case investigation and contact tracing efforts. To date, nearly 139,000 people who are or were positive ...

Public Health officials are reporting a “cautious optimism” in the battle against coronavirus with a downward trend in hospitalizations and new cases in the past few weeks.  The number of reported COVID-19 patients hospitalized has not been impacted by the backlog in cases in the statewide lab system, according to Dr. Barbara Ferrer, director of the L.A. County Department of ...

Dr. Sonia Angell submitted her resignation Sunday evening from her position as director of California’s Department of Public Health (DPH) and as the state’s public health officer in the wake of the discovery of a backlog of 300,000 COVID-19 test results due to computer errors. Last week, state officials confirmed that an estimated 300,000 test results had not been processed ...

35 new Santa Clarita coronavirus cases have been confirmed Tuesday, with an additional 1,901 cases being confirmed within Los Angeles County. The Santa Clarita Valley cumulative total is now 4,429, and the L.A. County total of cumulative coronavirus cases stands at 195,614 as of Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH). The state has determined ...

1,634 additional coronavirus cases in Los Angeles County confirmed on Monday, with a backlog in case reporting still occurring in the County, officials said. The L.A. County total of cumulative coronavirus cases now stands at 193,788 as of Monday, according to Dr. Barbara Ferrer, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH).  “We’re at the start of ...

28 additional Santa Clarita Valley coronavirus cases have been confirmed Monday afternoon, bringing the case total to over 4,100, officials said. As of Monday, a total of 4,125 cumulative cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the Santa Clarita Valley since testing began in March, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. These include: 2,001 in the ...

The highest one-day increase of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations since March has been reported in Los Angeles County Tuesday, officials said.  41 additional Santa Clarita Valley coronavirus cases have been confirmed Tuesday, with an additional 4,244 cases being confirmed within Los Angeles County, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH). The Santa Clarita Valley total is ...

An additional 2,593 coronavirus cases were confirmed in Los Angeles County on Monday, officials said.  The newly-confirmed cases bring the cumulative total number of COVID-19 cases in L.A. County to 136,129, according to Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer. “All of our actions and behaviors now help determine what our lives, our communities and our economy will be ...

Los Angeles County coronavirus testing capacity is increasing as the County prepares to move forward with the recovery process, with a reopening goal of July 4.  Supervisor Hilda Solis highlighted the County’s testing program, which has increased capacity to 20,000 coronavirus tests a day countywide, including a site in Santa Clarita.  Solis noted COVID-19 cases are higher for people of ...