coronavirus cases surpassed a threshold set by Los Angeles public health officials to trigger one.An “impressive and alarming surge" of more than 6,000 new cases put Los Angeles County over a five-day average of 4,500 cases per day, Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Monday.
She declined to take action until county supervisors meet Tuesday.If the county orders residents to stay home, it would be the first such action since mid-March when Democratic Gov.