| | | | Afternoon headlines for Friday, April 10, 2020
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Were You Infected With Coronavirus But Didn’t Know It? New Test Can Tell You  Los Angeles County Department of Public Health officials confirmed Friday that they will start testing the levels of antibodies in 1,000 randomly selected adults to track the spread of coronavirus. For the testing of blood serum, known as serological testing, the county is working with the University of Southern California to collect blood samples that […]
  
‘Don’t Leave Home’ Orders, Business Shutdowns In LA Extended To At Least May 15  Los Angeles County’s stay-at-home and business-closure orders were extended Friday to May 15, with health officials saying that while physical-distancing requirements have dramatically slowed the spread of coronavirus, lifting them now could lead to nearly 96% of the population being infected by August. The orders had been set to expire April 19. Citing a detailed […]
Coronavirus Death Toll Hike To 240 In LA: Death Rate Increases As More Cases Found  On a day the county extended stay-at-home and business-closure orders for another month, the number of coronavirus deaths topped 240 Friday in Los Angeles County, while more than 400 more cases were confirmed. The county’s mortality rate from the illness — the percentage of people with the disease who have died — also crept upward […]
Even Lawyers Are Representing Themselves In Their Lawsuits Over Coronavirus Lost Business Attorney Mark Geragos and his law firm Friday filed court papers seeking a court order directing Travelers Indemnity Co. of Connecticut to provide compensation for financial losses suffered since Mayor Eric Garcetti’s March 15 order directing all non-essential businesses to close because of the coronavirus outbreak. The still unofficial lawsuit states that even though the […]
L.A. Archbishop Leads Good Friday National Prayer Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez led a Good Friday National Prayer of the Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Friday to ask for an end to the coronavirus pandemic. “Future generations will look back on this as the long Lent of 2020, a time when disease and death suddenly darkened the whole Earth,” […]
Fire Leads To Explosion and Fireball Over Burbank Residential Neighborhood A fire at a Burbank Water and Power substation Friday triggered an explosion and fireball that briefly loomed over a dense residential neighborhood in Burbank, but there were no reports of injuries or damaged homes, police said. There was no immediate word on what caused the fire, which was reported shortly before noon at the […]
Telemedicine Program Launched to Screen Non-Urgent 911 Cases During Pandemic The Los Angeles Fire Department has launched a telemedicine program for healthcare professionals to virtually screen 911 callers with non-life-threatening symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic, the department announced Friday. The department has been developing the “LAFD Telemedicine Program” for more than two years, but accelerated its rollout due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Peter […]
L.A. Community Colleges to Continue Online Classes due to Coronavirus Los Angeles Community College District Chancellor Francisco Rodriguez Friday announced the district’s spring 2020 classes at all nine campuses will continue through remote platforms for the remainder of the semester due to the coronavirus pandemic. “We are working with faculty and staff to develop a plan for returning these important classes as soon as possible […]
New Snowfall, Rainfall, Low Temperature Records Set During April Storm With Friday marking six straight days of measurable precipitation, downtown Los Angeles has broken its previous April record of five consecutive days, set in 1983, according to the National Weather Service. The 2.96 inches of measurable precipitation downtown over the last five days far exceeds the average precipitation for an entire April, of nine-tenths of […]
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