The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) encourages residents in Santa Clarita and Los Angeles County to celebrate Memorial Day safely by continuing to follow Public Health Guidance for Informal Social Gatherings.
If household guests are fully vaccinated, LADPH recommends that people can gather indoors and outdoors without any masking or distancing requirements. If guests from more than one household at your gathering are unvaccinated, mask wearing and social distancing is recommended, according to Public Health officials.
“We are all glad this Memorial Day will look so different from last Memorial Day – it’s such a relief for so many of us to be able to gather with family and friends again. If you’re celebrating with someone elderly and they haven’t been vaccinated, celebrate safely outdoors with masks and distancing or virtually,” said Dr. Barbara Ferrer, Director of Public Health. “I encourage everyone who hasn’t been vaccinated yet, to make time to get vaccinated. The vaccine provides the best protection and is keeping transmission in L.A. County low.”
For those who have yet to receive the vaccine, gathering outdoors with at most 100 others is safest, and gathering indoors is strongly discouraged, according to Public Health officials. If gathering indoors, LADPH recommends to keep the numbers lower, at 50% capacity or 50 people, whichever is fewer and allows for physical distancing indoors.
The overall test positivity rate dropped from 0.4 percent to 0.3 percent across the county and in areas with the fewest health affirming resources.
7 new deaths and 220 new positive cases of confirmed COVID-19 were announced by the L.A. County Department of Public Health (Public Health) Tuesday, with 8 new confirmed cases in Santa Clarita.
L.A. County has experienced 1,243,712 positive cases and 24,338 deaths since the onset of the pandemic, with 273 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 with 18 percent in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
Over 6,750,000 individuals have been tested across L.A. County with 17 percent of people testing positive, according to Public Health.
As of Saturday, 27,068 cumulative cases have been reported in the Santa Clarita Valley over the past year, according to Public Health. These cases include:
- 20,470 in the City of Santa Clarita* (+4)
- 47 in the unincorporated areas of Bouquet Canyon
- 850 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country
- 3,735 in Castaic* (+4)
- 69 in the unincorporated areas of Newhall
- 1 in Placerita Canyon
- 15 in San Francisquito/Bouquet Canyon
- 17 in unincorporated Sand Canyon
- 132 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus
- 40 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus/Canyon Country
- 1,160 in Stevenson Ranch
- 337 in the unincorporated areas of Val Verde
- 195 in the unincorporated areas of Valencia
*As of Sunday, May 23, public health officials have recorded 2,028 cumulative cases have been reported at the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center, including 1,479 at the North County Correctional Facility. Those cases are distributed between both the City of Santa Clarita and Castaic totals. Those cases are distributed between both the City of Santa Clarita and Castaic totals.
In nearby Acton, there have been 480 cumulative cases, as well as 283 cases in Agua Dulce.
A total of 145 coronavirus deaths have been reported at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, with at least 291 COVID-19 deaths reported across the Santa Clarita Valley since March 2020.
To learn how to make an appointment, what verifications you will need to show at your vaccination appointment, and much more, visit the L.A. County Vaccination website (English) or Vacunate Los Angeles website (Spanish).
Vaccinations are always free and open to eligible residents and workers regardless of immigration status.
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