LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn is quarantining after a staffer reported testing positive for COVID-19.
A spokesperson for Hahn says the staffer tested negative in a follow-up test.
Hahn has also tested negative but is quarantining out of an abundance of caution.
LA County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Wednesday that "COVID-19 appears to be on track to becoming one of the leading causes of death in LA County."
She says it's far deadlier than the flu. Between March and June, COVID-19 killed twice as many people as the flu. Hospitalizations remain the highest they've been since the pandemic began.
There were 64 new deaths and 3,266 new cases of COVID-19. To date, Public Health has identified more than 164,00 positive cases of COVID-19, and more than 4,200 deaths.
LA County Public Health officials have also announced the closure of those sectors to mimic Newsom's order: gyms and fitness centers, places of worship, indoor protests, nail salons, massage parlors, tattoo parlors, hair salons, barbershops and malls.
California has more than 400,000 cases but the death rate in New York is more than California. Gov. Newsom addressed the increase in cases on Wednesday saying "it is a sober reminder of why we are taking things as seriously as we are."
He said it's a reminder of why the state mask mandate went into place in June and closures of indoor dining at restaurants and other business sectors.
WHAT'S CLOSED AGAIN IN CALIFORNIA?
INDOOR OPERATIONS at RESTAURANTS STATEWIDE/GYMS, HOUSES OF WORSHIP FOR CA COUNTIES ON STATE MONITORING LIST
In the past few weeks, Newsom released also released new guidelines for barbershops and hair salons to operate outdoors in a safe environment Monday. Previously, Newsom has ordered the closure of fitness centers, houses of worship, hair and nail salons, barbershops in those counties on the state monitoring list last week, which includes LA County and other counties across the state.
He reminded what was closed statewide - indoor operations at dine-in restaurants, wineries, movie theaters, zoos, bars including outdoors - and what was closed in certain counties on the state monitoring list including gyms, shopping malls and places of worship.
Newsom had ordered the closure of indoor operations at restaurants, wineries, zoos, movie theaters for at least three weeks for certain counties, including LA County, amid rising cases of COVID-19 in the state. Newsom has already ordered the closure of bars in LA County and other counties. Meanwhile, LA County, Orange County and Riverside counties decided to close their bars.
SCHOOLS UPDATE
Newsom ordered the closure of schools for in-person classes for those Calfornia counties that are on the state monitoring list which is now more than 30 counties. Newsom said schools can physically reopen when its county has been off the monitoring list for 14 consecutive days. Schools that don't meet this requirement must begin the year with distance learning, according to Newsom.
Newsom said the schools in those counties on the watch list can't reopen in-person school until they are off the state monitoring list for two weeks straight unless the district superintendent requests a waiver from the county health officer, which may be granted. They will shift to distance learning in more than 30 counties. That includes Los Angeles County, Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange County and Ventura County and counties up north like Alameda County, Marin County, Monterey and Napa.
Both LAUSD and San Diego School District have already announced that their school year will start online and school campuses will remain closed. LAUSD starts Aug. 18.