Los Angeles County public health officials are asking residents to avoid attending religious services despite recent court rulings that reversed such bans on indoor worship.
The request comes as California topped 2 million COVID-19 cases, according to government figures. Religious services became a point of contention as county officials issued lockdown orders and some places of worship have opened in defiance. "No matter what a Superior Court judge says and given what’s happening now, it is simply too risky to gather indoors with other people who do not live with you," the L.A.
County Department of Public Health said Thursday in a statement. The county reversed its indoor worship ban over the weekend after a Supreme Court ruling that.