Long Beach tops 700 this week, second straight week over 400

Long Beach topped 700 caller coronavirus cases this week, the astir its had successful respective months.

The spike successful cases came the aforesaid week Long Beach Health Department has tweaked its rules for investigating successful schools, regulations for mega-events and disguise requirements for workplaces.

The Health Department issued its updated wellness bid earlier successful the week, allowing section schools to instrumentality a modified quarantine enactment for students who person been successful adjacent interaction with idiosyncratic who has COVID-19.

Asymptomatic students whitethorn proceed in-person learning if they deterioration masks and trial antagonistic doubly a week either done a accelerated antigen trial oregon a PCR test. The pupil tin beryllium released from this modified quarantine connected time 8 if they trial negative, a metropolis connection said.

This modified quarantine begins the time aft the genitor oregon guardian is notified their kid was exposed.

The metropolis defines adjacent interaction arsenic being wrong 6 feet of an infected idiosyncratic for a cumulative of 15 minutes oregon much during a 24-hour play oregon coming successful nonstop interaction with the infected person’s bodily fluids.

The Health Department besides clarified successful its bid that each mega-event attendees 2 years and older indispensable amusement impervious of either vaccination oregon a antagonistic COVID-19 trial wrong 72 hours of the lawsuit commencement time.

A mega-event has 1,000 attendees indoors per time oregon 10,000 attendees outdoors per day, the Health Department said, and those events are considered higher hazard for COVID-19 transmission.

The latest update allows individuals who execute successful events similar musicals oregon theatrical shows to execute for an assemblage without a mask. But those who region their masks portion performing who aren’t vaccinated indispensable beryllium tested doubly weekly.

Masks are required for each different indoor workplaces.

As the metropolis clarified its protocols this week, however, Long Beach was besides dealing with a spike successful caller cases, reporting 706 arsenic of Thursday, Nov. 11, according to metropolis wellness data. It’s the 2nd week successful a enactment caller cases person accrued by much than 400. Last week, the metropolis recorded 409 caller cases.

In total, the metropolis has had 66,260 full coronavirus cases since the pandemic began.

The metropolis lone recorded 2 caller deaths. The full decease toll was 1,049 arsenic of Thursday.

Daily caller cases this week averaged 13.5 per 100,000 radical successful Long Beach, higher than Los Angeles County overall, which had 10.2 regular cases per 100,000 arsenic of Thursday.

Long Beach’s 90810 ZIP codification reported a seven-day mean of 18 cases per 100,000 people, the highest successful the city. The 90803 ZIP code’s seven-day mean was 8.9 cases per 100,000, the lowest mean successful Long Beach.

Hospitalizations decreased by two. Last week, the metropolis recorded 50 radical hospitalized with COVID-19. As of Thursday, 48 radical were hospitalized.

The fig of vaccinated Long Beach residents, meanwhile, accrued by 4,174. In total, 321,833 residents person been vaccinated, metropolis wellness information from Thursday showed.

Long Beach adults — those astatine slightest 18 years aged — were vaccinated astatine a complaint of 82.4%, arsenic of Thursday, up somewhat from 81.8% past week. And 71% of children from 12 to 17 years aged had gotten the shot, up from 70.2% past week.

Now that children ages 5 to 11 are eligible to person the vaccine, the metropolis has started signaling that data. In total, metropolis information from Thursday showed 2,054 children had gotten the shot, astir 4.7% of that property range.

Those 18 to 34 proceed having the lowest vaccination complaint among big property groups; 66.6% of that radical had been vaccinated arsenic of Thursday. Last week, adults successful that property scope were vaccinated astatine a 66% rate.

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