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LA County to end COVID-19 emergency March 31

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County will end its COVID-19 emergency declaration at the end of March — the latest region to take that step amid stabilizing and improving pandemic conditions. The move, approved unanimously Tuesday by the county Board of Supervisors, comes the same day Gov. Gavin Newsom formally rescinded the three-year-old statewide emergency declaration. Like their state ...
Claire Altieri, senior associate of Concentric by Ginkgo, sets up a pooled PCR testing site for COVID-19 variants at a new test facility at Tom Bradley International Terminal that health officials hope will help them spot new variants that may emerge from passengers arriving from other countries at Los Angeles International Airport on Jan. 2, 2023, in Los...

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County will end its COVID-19 emergency declaration at the end of March — the latest region to take that step amid stabilizing and improving pandemic conditions.

The move, approved unanimously Tuesday by the county Board of Supervisors, comes the same day Gov. Gavin Newsom formally rescinded the three-year-old statewide emergency declaration.

Like their state counterparts, L.A. County officials praised the original March 2020 proclamation of a local health emergency pertaining to COVID-19 for providing necessary authority and flexibility to respond to the outbreak.

But given current conditions — where vaccines and therapeutics are plentiful and hospitalization and death rates have tumbled without the sort of aggressive

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