The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) strongly recommends everyone but is not mandating residents regardless of vaccination status, wear masks indoors in public places as a precautionary measure, officials announced Monday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted that Delta variants are now responsible for about one in every five new infections across the ...

As of Monday, 50 percent of L.A. County residents ages 16 and over have been fully vaccinated, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH). Los Angeles County is offering vaccines at many sites across the County in order to make it more accessible for eligible L.A. County residents to get vaccinated. This week, there are 756 ...

Five new deaths and 175 new positive cases of confirmed COVID-19 were announced by the L.A. County Department of Public Health (Public Health) Sunday, with four new confirmed cases in Santa Clarita.  Public Health released the latest data on positive cases of COVID-19 with 175 positive tests across L.A. County and four in Santa Clarita, according to Public Health.  The ...

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) marked the third week without a healthcare worker death due to COVID-19. In a coronavirus update Tuesday, Public Health announced there had been no new deaths among healthcare workers in Los Angeles County, who began receiving vaccinations in December 2020, in three weeks. Public Health also encouraged those ...

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the administration of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for children as young as 12 years old. The FDA announced authorization for the emergency use of the Pfizer vaccine Monday throughout the United States after a clinical trial found the vaccine did not cause serious adverse effects among children in the age ...

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) officials announced Wednesday that additional cases of a potentially “more severe” COVID-19 variant have been detected. Amidst the decline of COVID-19 cases among pregnant women as well as residents and staff at skilled nursing facilities, 34% of specimens analyzed at the Public Health Laboratory this past week contained a COVID-19 variant with ...

40 additional cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed within the Santa Clarita Valley Wednesday, with over 50 percent of the total number of cases being reported within both the North County Correctional Facility and the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center. As of Wednesday afternoon, a total of 3,417 cumulative cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the Santa Clarita Valley ...

Officials with Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital reported that two additional COVID-19 deaths Wednesday have been confirmed at the hospital, while 77 total patients have recovered and been released since the pandemic began earlier this year. Hospital officials could not release any information on the deceased patients due to privacy laws, including things such as age or health history. The two ...

29 additional cases of coronavirus have been confirmed across the Santa Clarita Valley on Saturday, with over 1,040 confirmed cumulatively since testing for COVID-19 began in March. As of Saturday afternoon, a total of 1,043 cumulative cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the Santa Clarita Valley since testing began in March. These include: 648 in the City of Santa ...

19 additional cases of coronavirus have been confirmed across the Santa Clarita Valley on Wednesday, with 980 confirmed cumulatively since testing for COVID-19 began in March. As of Wednesday afternoon, a total of 980 cumulative cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the Santa Clarita Valley since testing began in March. These include: 609 in the City of Santa Clarita ...