| | | | The news for Sunday, April 19, 2020
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L.A. County Sees Deadliest Day in COVID-19 Pandemic With 81 Deaths  Los Angeles County has experienced the deadliest day yet in the coronavirus pandemic, with 81 new deaths and 642 additional cases, for a total of 576 deaths and 12,021 cases. “Today marks a very sad milestone for our County, we are reporting the highest number of COVID-19 deaths for any one day since the beginning […]
  
L.A. Metro Making More Service Reductions Starting Sunday The Los Angeles Metropolitan Authority will further reduce services starting Sunday due to the coronavirus pandemic. Metro said on weekdays, Metro Bus will run its usual Sunday schedule plus some Rapid, Express and local bus lines. On weekends, Metro will run just its usual Sunday schedule. Metro Rail will run every 12 minutes between 6 […]
Long Beach Opens 3 New Test Sites; Revamps Covid-19 Website Three new sites have begu offering drive-through COVID-19 testing in Long Beach, and the city’s Department of Health and Human Services unveiled a new website and introduced an interactive data dashboard to provide transparency to residents. The new testing sites opened Saturday at Cabrillo and Jordan high schools and St. Mary Medical Center, city officials […]
OC Coronavirus Cases Rise to 1,556, With 32 Deaths Four more COVID-19 deaths and 63 more confirmed cases of the disease have been reported by Orange County health officials, bringing the county’s total to 1,556 cases and 32 deaths. The number of hospitalized patients rose from 129 on Friday to 155, and the number of those in intensive care rose from 48 to 59. […]
Garcetti to Deliver State of City Address Amid Coronavirus Crisis  Mayor Eric Garcetti will deliver his annual State of the City address Sunday with budget cuts and the coronavirus outbreak expected to be the main topics. The 5:15 p.m. speech will be a much-understated event compared to the usual pomp and circumstance that surrounds the State of the City address. Gone will be the usual […]
L.A. County Nursing Homes Hot Zones for Coronavirus Contagion Well over half of the skilled nursing facilities identified by California officials as having experienced one or more cases of COVID-19 are in Los Angeles County. Of the 261 facilities on the California Department of Health list, 148 are located in Los Angeles County. The department’s website said the list is a snapshot representing 86% […]
Special Divine Mercy Masses to Be Celebrated at Cathedral Candles donated by Roman Catholics throughout Southern California will light the sanctuary of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Sunday during special Divine Mercy Masses. The candles will be lit for the 7 a.m. Spanish-language Mass and will remain lit as an expression of hope in God and a visual sign of trust […]
Virtual Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration to Be Conducted A virtual commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day will be conducted Sunday by the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, remembering those who perished, honoring those who survived and marking the 75th anniversary of liberation and the end of the Holocaust. The program, titled “75 Years After Liberation: Turning Memory into Action” will begin at 2 […]
Firefighters Battle Second-Alarm Pallet Yard Fire in La Puente  Firefighters are battling a second-alarm fire Sunday at a pallet yard in La Puente, where there is a report of a least one person injured at the scene, a county fire department dispatcher said. Firefighters were dispatched at 3:34 a.m. to the 14600 block of Proctor Avenue, she said. Firefighters dispatched to the location found […]
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