Los Angeles County Will Issue Its Own Rules For Reopening Movie Theaters, Restaurants, Outdoor Concert Venues On Thursday

Los Angeles was among 13 counties approved for less restrictive tiers within California’s reopening framework on Tuesday. The regions have a combined population of more than 17 million residents. L.A. and Orange Counties were among the eight regions progressing to the Orange tier.

“I anticipate that we will be overwhelmed in that first week, but hope that it will quiet down a bit after that. But even with a very significant increase in the supply of vaccine, we’re estimating that it will still take a couple months,” said Los Angeles County Chief Science Officer Dr. Paul Simon on Friday.

A little more than a month after opening with much fanfare from California Governor Gavin Newsom, the large-scale vaccination site at Cal State Los Angeles will cease operations on April 11, federal and state officials managing the location announced today.

“Our only constraint is manufactured supply,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday. “With the expectation that more supply will be made available,” he continued, “that expectation has set up a framework where today we are announcing that we are modifying, in a stair-stepped manner, our eligibility for doses here in the state.”

Los Angeles County’s Covid-19 case rate continued to fall on Tuesday, putting the region on pace to move into an even less-restrictive tier of the state’s economic-reopening blueprint by early April, which would allow for higher capacity in many sectors, including movie theaters, restaurants, concerts and sports events.

“The R has been creeping up steadily now for the past 3 weeks,” said Dr. Christina Ghaly, the Director of the Department of Health Services for Los Angeles County on Monday. That rate is the calculated rate of Covid-19 transmission in the county.

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For the first time, Los Angeles County officials on Wednesday announced a timeline for students under 18 to be vaccinated. Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said that, while all teachers and school staff in the region are currently eligible for shots, on May 1 all students ages 16 and over will become qualified. See second-to-last bullet point below from Ferrer’s presentation.

For the second week running, a large group of California’s most-populous counties are moving from the most restrictive Purple tier of Governor Gavin Newsom’s reopening program to the less restrictive Red tier.

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Los Angeles County will officially move into the state’s less-restrictive “Red” tier Monday, with the state achieving a milestone of 2 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in hard-hit communities and triggering an easing of requirements for counties to advance in Governor Gavin Newsom’s economic-reopening blueprint.

Los Angeles movie theaters have been cleared to reopen next week, although capacity will limited at 25 percent. The county's department of Public health said on Thursday that cinemas, along with certain other businesses, will be allowed to once again welcome customers in the coming days.

After being closed for a year, movie theaters in Los Angeles have finally been cleared to reopen early next week thanks to changes in the California reopening system that allow L.A., Orange and San Bernardino counties to enter the second tier.As part of changes to the system installed by Gov.

The Los Angeles County Public Health department confirmed on Thursday the news announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday that movie theaters can open indoors at 25% capacity “with reserved seating only where each group is seated with at least 6 feet of distance in all directions between any other groups.”

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterMovie theaters in Los Angeles county are poised to reopen at limited capacity as soon as Saturday.The county had to meet several requirements, such as distributing two million vaccine doses to underserved populations and having fewer than 10 new cases a day per 100,000 people. Gov.

Los Angeles Unified School District campuses will resume in-person instruction in mid-April for pre-school and elementary students, and by the end of April for secondary students, under a tentative agreement announced tonight between the district and the teachers’ union.

It’s looking like movie theaters will be given the opportunity to finally reopen here in Los Angeles County as early as next week.

Los Angeles County on Tuesday qualified for the red tier of Governor Gavin Newsom’s Covid-19 reopening plan. It’s the first time since the governor introduced his Blueprint for a Safer Economy that the state’s largest county has qualified to move out of the most restrictive purple tier and into the red. If LA can maintain its numbers for just more week, a slew of businesses will be able to reopen, including movie theaters — to 25% capacity or 100 people, whichever is less.