L.A. County faced its first major test of COVID-19 recovery over the weekend as a wave of businesses were allowed to reopen, as were golf courses, trails and parks
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However, when it came to floral shops — a sector allowed to open under the first wave of eased restrictions on one of the business weekends of the year with the Mother’s Day holiday — results were less than impressive. She said health officers surveyed 410 businesses over the weekend and found that 162 stores were in violation of health officer orders. She said officers found some stores allowing guests inside and were not requiring the use of cloth face masks.
Other key numbers: 234 positive cases among L.A. County’s homeless population; 23 active investigations at shelters where there is at least one positive case; 1,690 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 illness and 15 percent of those patients are on ventilators; 444 confirmed cases in jails ; and one more death from the Terminal Island correctional facility for a total of seven deaths thus far.
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