The Los Angeles Police Department saw a substantial spike in COVID-19 cases, reporting 84 new cases and two new hospitalizations in the last week.
Police Chief Michel Moore said the majority of new cases in the department are concentrated in the central area in downtown L.A.
“Central area is our area, our ‘hotspot’ if you will,” Moore said Tuesday. “We’ve been monitoring each of the stations, and they have seen a substantial increase with 26 new COVID cases there.”
To combat increases, staff are taking protective measures to reduce transmission. Moore said that includes restricting front desk access.
It remains unclear how many LAPD employees have been fully vaccinated. However, Moore said at least 51 percent have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
To date a total of 2,977 LAPD employees have tested positive for the virus as of Monday, according to City News Service.
The department’s number of partially vaccinated employees is lagging behind L.A. County’s overall vaccination rate. Data shared by the department indicates that just over half of the department's 12,105 staff members had received one vaccine dose by July 21.
By that same date, 5,689 staff members had received both doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
The latest figures from the public health department, published on Aug. 23, 2021, show that 73 percent of Angelenos aged 12 and up have received at least one dose. Of the overall 8.8 million people eligible for the vaccine, 64 percent are fully vaccinated.
According to CNS, the department will launch its mobile vaccination clinic Monday in hopes of increasing COVID-19 vaccination in the department.
Each station will have a clinic that runs for 20 hours per day, allowing night shift and day shift employees to get vaccinated. On its first day of deployment, 19 LAPD employees in the San Fernando Valley got vaccinated, Moore told CNS.
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