Los Angeles County public health officials on Sunday reported 1,192 new cases of the coronavirus and nine related deaths but said both numbers were artificially low due to a weekend reporting lag.
via its electronic reporting system for more than a week. The backlog was generated by a series of data failures that led to hundreds of thousands of test results not being uploaded into the system. It’s unclear how many of the unreported results were from L.A. County and whether they will change the picture of how the virus is continuing to spread here. Numbers of deaths and hospitalizations were not affected by the reporting issue, officials said.
“Because there are so many people infected with COVID-19 and spreading the virus who have no symptoms, and we ourselves could be infected and unknowingly spreading the virus, each of us needs to make sure we do everything we can to avoid being close to others not in our household,” Barbara Ferrer, the county health director, said in a statement. “With the warm weather, this can be challenging as we seek to find places to go that offer relief from the heat.
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