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City Reports 63 New Cases of COVID-19 on Sunday

No additional fatalities reported

Published on Monday, November 23, 2020 | 5:50 am
 

City officials reported 63 cases of the Coronavirus on Sunday and no additional fatalities marking the second highest total recorded in one day.

The count breaks a previous record for the second highest day of 61 cases recorded last week. 

Sunday’s report brings the city’s total to 3,374 and 131deaths.

Meanwhile 31 patients battling the virus are currently being treated at Huntington Hospital. 

Meanwhile, the County crossed a 4,000 daily average threshold on Sunday. Last week, County officials said that benchmark would trigger the return of the county safer at home order. 

It is not known if Pasadena’s health department would scale back to that level with the county. 

The Pasadena Department of Public Health revised its health order last week to require restaurants, breweries and bars to shut down outdoor service and dining areas between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., effective Friday. Personal care services that require customers or staff to remove their masks, such as shaves and facials, were disallowed, and personal care businesses were limited to 25% capacity.

Last week, Pasadena Chamber of Commerce President Paul Little said it didn’t seem to make sense for health officials to keep targeting restaurants and other businesses in response to the pandemic.

“What all of the health people are saying is that they can’t track this latest spike to anything other than Halloween, Biden winning the elections, the Dodgers, that kind of stuff,” he said. “They say specifically that it’s not restaurants, it’s not hair salons, it’s not gyms, it’s not any of those things.”

“To Pasadena’s credit, they’re being less restrictive than the county in what they’re doing, but they have to follow the state guidelines,” Little said. “But my understanding is they’re not imposing any kind of capacity restrictions on outdoor dining, for example.”

The order would allow only essential workers to leave home, or people who are accessing essential services.

“If we can’t get this back under control, that is unfortunately where we’re headed,” said County Health Director Barbara Ferrer. “I still hope that we don’t have to go to Safer At Home and that we’re able in the next few days to start turning this

around. But it really at this point means that things we did last week were part of a solution to turn things around.

“The other hope I have is that if that wasn’t possible and people didn’t make changes last week, that they’re making them today so that this is of short duration,” she said. “I know how exhausting that is for everyone, to continue to have to abide by rules and restrictions. I also know how exhausted our health care workers are, our essential workers are. And for all of their

sakes, we need to slow down the spread and we need to do that rapidly.”

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