Hospital visitors in Santa Clarita and throughout California are set to need proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test before entering hospital facilities, with some exceptions, beginning Wednesday. On Wednesday, Aug. 11, a California Public Health Officer Order is scheduled to take effect, only allowing people to make indoor hospital visits if they can show proof of vaccination or ...

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a motion to require County employees to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or submit to weekly coronavirus testing. The motion passed unanimously and directs County staff to establish a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, effective immediately, which requires all County employees to provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination by Oct. 1, ...

Los Angeles County is set to reinstate the mask mandate indoors, including in Santa Clarita, regardless of vaccination status starting Saturday due to an increase in COVID-19 cases in recent weeks. The new mask mandate is set to go into effect at 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, and requires both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals to wear masks while indoors. This mandate ...

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) officials reported that new metrics showed continued progress in terms of recovery from the coronavirus pandemic Tuesday. With declining COVID-19 case and test positivity rates, L.A. County remains in the least restrictive yellow tier in the State’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy as of Tuesday. “We continue to urge everyone eligible to ...

Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are continuing to decline in Los Angeles County, reaching the lowest five-day average since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. As o Friday, there are 376 people with COVID-19 currently hospitalized and 22 percent of these people are in the ICU. The five-day average of daily hospitalizations is 389, the lowest since the beginning of the ...

As Los Angeles County prepares to enter the yellow tier of reopening, public health officials are cautioning residents to celebrate Cinco de Mayo safely this year to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) urges everyone to celebrate Cinco de Mayo safely this Wednesday. Precautions residents can take include avoiding large crowds, celebrating outdoors, ...

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) officials announced Friday that approximately 30% of people between the ages of 16-49 in L.A. County have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. As of Friday, approximately 30% of the persons in the newly eligible group of people between 16-49 years of age, around 4,949,863 people, have received their first ...

Around 87 percent of reported COVID-19 hospitalizations reported in Los Angeles County occurred in people with at least one comorbidity, according to L.A. County Department of Public Health (LADPH) officials. 87 percent of people who have been hospitalized in L.A. County due to coronavirus had at least one comorbidity, such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, or diabetes, according to Public Health ...

Los Angeles County remains in the orange tier of re-opening as of Tuesday as public health officials announced updated coronavirus numbers for the state of California. As of Tuesday, Los Angeles County is in the orange tier of the State’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy that allows for permitted activities in several key sectors with safety measures in place. L.A. ...

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) officials announced Friday that nearly 5 million COVID-19 vaccines had been administered to residents. More than 4,715,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to people across Los Angeles County. Of those vaccinated, 1,652,149 people received second doses and 136,232 people received the single dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. “I encourage those ...