Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer confirmed today what Deadline inferred last week: that the more-infectious BA.2 variant of Covid-19 is “now the predominant variant” in the county.
Los Angeles County Lifting Covid Restrictions For Indoor Concerts & Sports Events
22.03.2022 - 03:17 / deadline.com
Los Angeles County will align with the state and lift the requirement that attendees of indoor mega-events such as sporting events or concerts show proof of Covid vaccination or a negative test, L.A. health officials said today.
According to the County Department of Public Health, the requirement will be lifted April 1 in conjunction with the state, which is also scrapping the mandate.
The move follows the lifting of other Covid restrictions in the county — such as indoor mask-wearing requirements — in response to dwindling infection and hospitalization numbers.
But county health officials continued to urge precautionary steps against virus spread, noting that the BA.2 subvariant of COVID-19 is slowly beginning to expand locally, and will likely gain a stronger foothold in the county, mirroring the pattern seen overseas and in some East Coast cities.
During the week ending Feb. 26, 6.4% of all Covid specimens that were analyzed for variants turned out to be the result of BA.2, which is a more-infectious offshoot of the Omicron variant that fueled the recent winter surge in infections. That was up from 4.5% the week prior.
Health officials noted that while the percentage is still low, it finally beginning to climb meaningfully after hovering around 1% for weeks. They said BA.2 is currently estimated to be responsible for 23% of sequenced cases nationally, while representing 39% of infections in some areas of the Northeast. The proportion of new Omicron cases is much, much higher overseas, and the variant now accounts for 75% of all new cases globally.
“The increasing presence of the highly transmissible BA.2 subvariant in many regions of this country reminds us that we need to remain vigilant and prepared for the possibility of
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