Los Angeles County well being officers have warned residents to train warning on Mom’s Day with COVID-19 instances as soon as once more rising.

“Provided that the virus is spreading at a excessive fee, public well being asks all these gathering to have a good time and honor their mothers and grandmoms this weekend to maintain one another secure by testing earlier than gathering, staying outdoors as a lot as potential, and carrying masks when indoors,” the LA County Public Well being Division mentioned in a message.

The message got here amid an uptick in instances in Los Angeles County. Statistics launched Friday confirmed that the county was reporting greater than 3,000 new instances, six deaths, and greater than 230 hospitalizations – which was a slight drop from the week earlier than.

Based on state knowledge launched Sunday, COVID-related hospitalizations decreased by 10 individuals to 248, with the variety of sufferers in intensive care, 33, unchanged from the day earlier than.

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Circumstances stay considerably lower than their peak again in mid-January, when LA County was experiencing greater than 40,000 new COVID instances per week amid the winter’s omicron variant surge.

“As L.A. County continues on this completely different section of the pandemic, Public Well being’s objective has not modified, and we are going to work with companions to cut back critical sickness and deaths from COVID-19,” Public Well being Director Barbara Ferrer mentioned in an announcement.

“It’s merely not acceptable to tolerate disproportionality that ends in increased charges of sickness, dying and long-term incapacity amongst some residents and staff when there are collective prevention methods that may mitigate unfold and critical sickness.”