Another 46 people have died in Los Angeles County since Monday due to COVID-19 illness, bringing the total number to 663. For a second straight day, the number of newly diagnosed positive cases has increased significantly — Tuesday by 1,400, Monday by 1,491 — due to a backlog of cases, Dr.
Barbara Ferrer, director of the L.A. County Department of Public Health, said during the county’s daily press briefing amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The issue, she added, are labs that are unable to transmit electronic results to the county. The total number of positive cases in L.A.
County stands at 15,140, and 1,739 of those patients are currently hospitalized with 31 percent seeking treatment in ICUs. COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel.