weekly number of tests<\/a> sits at 87,000. That\u2019s an eight-week low, down from a high of 117,000 five weeks ago.<\/p>\nThe Los Angeles County health department \u2014 the state\u2019s largest\u2013 announced on Tuesday the fourth instance in a week that the region had seen over 2,000 new COVID-19 cases. That\u2019s a daily mark not seen even at the height of the virus\u2019s spread. The 24-hour total reported Tuesday was 2,364.<\/p>\n
Even more worrisome was rise in hospitalizations and spread rate.<\/p>\n
From the L.A. health department\u2019s press release:<\/p>\n
Public Health continues to assess key recovery indicators to understand how COVID-19 is affecting communities and capacity to treat people who may become seriously ill. Public Health is seeing small increases in hospitalizations and in the 7-day average of the daily positivity rate. There are 1,515 people who are currently hospitalized, 27% of these people are in the ICU and 18% are on ventilators. Although this number is significantly lower than peaks of over 1900 people hospitalized daily for COVID-19, this is higher than 1350 to 1450 daily hospitalizations seen in recent weeks. And while the cumulative positivity rate remains at 8%, the 7-day average of the daily positivity rate has increased to 8.8%.<\/p>\n
One day earlier, the department had pegged the 7-day positivity rate at 8.4 percent.<\/p>\n
See Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announce a new COVID-19 testing initiative on Tuesday:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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