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For Immediate Release:

June 30, 2021

While transmission in L.A. County remains low, L.A. County is seeing increases in cases and daily test positivity. On June 15, the day of the full reopening, the County saw 210 new cases and the test positivity rate was around 0.5%. Nearly two weeks after the June 15 reopening, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) has confirmed a doubling of both new cases and the test positivity rate; today’s case numbers are 422 and the test positivity rate is 1.2%.

While the increase in community transmission is concerning, Public Health notes the increases are still far below the surge levels over the winter of over 15,000 new cases and the test positivity rate of 20%.

Of the two new deaths reported today, one person that passed away was over the age of 80 and one person who died was between the ages of 65 and 79. To date, Public Health identified 1,250,240 positive cases of COVID-19 across all areas of L.A. County and a total of 24,483 deaths.

There are 255 people with COVID-19 currently hospitalized and 25% of these people are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Testing results are available for nearly 7,026,000 individuals with 17% of people testing positive.

Public Health continues to caution there is increased risk of COVID-19 infection for people who aren’t fully vaccinated because of increased intermingling and the circulation of more variants of concern like the highly transmissible Delta variant.

The best protection against COVID-19 is getting vaccinated. Public Health encourages those that are not vaccinated and are eligible to get vaccinated, to get vaccinated without delay.

If you are not vaccinated and around people outside your household, your mask offers the next best protection against the virus. With distancing requirements and capacity limits lifted in almost all settings, wearing a mask is critically important for those not yet vaccinated, including the 1.2 million children between the ages of 2 and 12.

“To the families and friends experiencing the sorrow of losing of a loved one due to COVID-19, we send our deepest condolences,” said Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd, Director of Public Health. “Last year, we didn’t have the vaccine and there were increases in cases and hospitalizations that occurred after the Fourth of July holiday. This year we have three powerful vaccines but there are still about 4 million residents that are unvaccinated and at risk of COVID-19 infection. With small increases in community transmission and an increase in the circulation of the Delta variant, your best protection and the best protection for the County’s recovery are the safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines. And while we are increasing the number of people with vaccination protection, sensible public health precautions, including masking and hand hygiene can support our recovery.”

People who are not fully vaccinated, including all children between the ages of 2 and 12, are required to wear masks at all indoor public settings and businesses. Because of increased circulation of the highly transmissible Delta variant across the country and to protect unvaccinated residents, Public Health strongly recommends everyone, as a precautionary measure, wear masks indoors in settings (such as grocery or retail stores theaters and family entertainment centers, and workplaces) when you don’t know everyone’s vaccination status.

Through Thursday, July 1 at County-run vaccination sites, LA City sites, and St. John’s Well Child and Family Center sites, everyone 18 and older coming to get a vaccine will have an opportunity to win one of two packages, each containing season passes to Six Flags, the LA Zoo, the Natural History Museum and the La Brea Tar Pits, and ticket packs to the California Science Center. Official rules and participating site locations are posted online on the Los Angeles Vaccination Sweepstakes page. Winners will be contacted by phone and/or email.

Anyone 12 and older living or working in L.A. County can get vaccinated. COVID-19 vaccinations are available at County-run sites, LA City run sites, almost all mobile sites and many of the community sites without an appointment. Many sites are open on weekends and have evening hours.

Visit: www.VaccinateLACounty.com (English) and www.VacunateLosAngeles.com (Spanish) to find a vaccination site near you, to make an appointment at vaccination sites, and much more. If you don’t have internet access, can’t use a computer, or you’re over 65, you can call 1-833-540-0473 for help finding an appointment, connecting to free transportation to and from a vaccination site, or scheduling a home-visit if you are homebound. Vaccinations are always free and open to eligible residents and workers regardless of immigration status.

COVID-19 Sector Protocols, Best Practices, COVID-19 Vaccine Dashboard, COVID-19 Surveillance Interactive Dashboard, Recovery Dashboard, and additional actions you can take to protect yourself, your family and your community are on the Public Health website www.publichealth.lacounty.gov.

Laboratory Confirmed Total Cases 1250240*

  • Los Angeles County (excl. LB and Pas) 1185253
  • Long Beach 53650
  • Pasadena 11337

Deaths 24483

  • Los Angeles County (excl. LB and Pas) 23189
  • Long Beach 945
  • Pasadena 349

Age Group (Los Angeles County Cases Only-excl LB and Pas)

  • 0 to 4: 29562
  • 5 to 11: 56771
  • 12 to 17: 70955
  • 18 to 29: 280777
  • 30 to 49: 393871
  • 50 to 64: 228230
  • 65 to 79: 91136
  • over 80: 33299
  • Under Investigation 652

Gender (Los Angeles County Cases Only-excl LB and Pas)

  • Female: 600964
  • Male: 561941
  • Other: 644
  • Under Investigation 21704

Race/Ethnicity (Los Angeles County Cases Only-excl LB and Pas)

  • American Indian/Alaska Native 2013
  • Asian: 56891
  • Black: 47716
  • Hispanic/Latino: 635182
  • Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander: 4249
  • White: 131465
  • Other: 99127
  • Under Investigation: 208610

Hospitalization

  • Hospitalized (Ever) 91097

Deaths Race/Ethnicity (Los Angeles County Cases Only-excl LB and Pas)

  • American Indian/Alaska Native 51
  • Asian 3163
  • Black 1919
  • Hispanic/Latino 12455
  • Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 67
  • White 5350
  • Other 152
  • Under Investigation 32

CITY / COMMUNITY** CASES (Case Rate)

  • City of Agoura Hills 1067 ( 5109 )
  • City of Alhambra 6921 ( 7980 )
  • City of Arcadia 2761 ( 4781 )
  • City of Artesia 2083 ( 12403 )
  • City of Avalon 16 ( 414 )
  • City of Azusa 6344 ( 12678 )
  • City of Baldwin Park 13204 ( 17200 )
  • City of Bell 6814 ( 18755 )
  • City of Bell Gardens 8394 ( 19489 )
  • City of Bellflower 10848 ( 13955 )
  • City of Beverly Hills 2712 ( 7856 )
  • City of Bradbury 39 ( 3648 )
  • City of Burbank 9010 ( 8406 )
  • City of Calabasas 1302 ( 5353 )
  • City of Carson 9933 ( 10584 )
  • City of Cerritos 3092 ( 6176 )
  • City of Claremont 2296 ( 6293 )
  • City of Commerce* 2403 ( 18387 )
  • City of Compton 17209 ( 17226 )
  • City of Covina 6426 ( 13106 )
  • City of Cudahy 4822 ( 19805 )
  • City of Culver City 2243 ( 5626 )
  • City of Diamond Bar 3286 ( 5713 )
  • City of Downey 17654 ( 15450 )
  • City of Duarte 2325 ( 10561 )
  • City of El Monte 17271 ( 14728 )
  • City of El Segundo 745 ( 4438 )
  • City of Gardena 6435 ( 10496 )
  • City of Glendale 20293 ( 9827 )
  • City of Glendora 4859 ( 9209 )
  • City of Hawaiian Gardens 2248 ( 15318 )
  • City of Hawthorne 10649 ( 11994 )
  • City of Hermosa Beach 1030 ( 5236 )
  • City of Hidden Hills 92 ( 4868 )
  • City of Huntington Park 11278 ( 18960 )
  • City of Industry 173 ( 39588 )
  • City of Inglewood 13837 ( 12182 )
  • City of Irwindale 253 ( 17341 )
  • City of La Canada Flintridge 772 ( 3731 )
  • City of La Habra Heights 117 ( 2145 )
  • City of La Mirada 4326 ( 8722 )
  • City of La Puente 6724 ( 16522 )
  • City of La Verne 2924 ( 8786 )
  • City of Lakewood 7382 ( 9186 )
  • City of Lancaster* 22559 ( 13962 )
  • City of Lawndale 3637 ( 10820 )
  • City of Lomita 1517 ( 7318 )
  • City of Lynwood* 13383 ( 18575 )
  • City of Malibu 449 ( 3464 )
  • City of Manhattan Beach 1389 ( 3858 )
  • City of Maywood 5251 ( 18721 )
  • City of Monrovia 3211 ( 8276 )
  • City of Montebello 10235 ( 15899 )
  • City of Monterey Park 4852 ( 7793 )
  • City of Norwalk 16231 ( 15081 )
  • City of Palmdale 24906 ( 15667 )
  • City of Palos Verdes Estates 490 ( 3624 )
  • City of Paramount 10018 ( 17882 )
  • City of Pico Rivera 11215 ( 17446 )
  • City of Pomona 24536 ( 15735 )
  • City of Rancho Palos Verdes 1557 ( 3642 )
  • City of Redondo Beach 2904 ( 4227 )
  • City of Rolling Hills 59 ( 3041 )
  • City of Rolling Hills Estates 292 ( 3599 )
  • City of Rosemead 4976 ( 8990 )
  • City of San Dimas* 3260 ( 9445 )
  • City of San Fernando 5311 ( 21579 )
  • City of San Gabriel 3266 ( 7975 )
  • City of San Marino 388 ( 2922 )
  • City of Santa Clarita 20705 ( 9393 )
  • City of Santa Fe Springs 2891 ( 15743 )
  • City of Santa Monica 4872 ( 5270 )
  • City of Sierra Madre 475 ( 4323 )
  • City of Signal Hill 1146 ( 9714 )
  • City of South El Monte 3438 ( 16462 )
  • City of South Gate 18761 ( 19114 )
  • City of South Pasadena 1333 ( 5116 )
  • City of Temple City 2383 ( 6537 )
  • City of Torrance 7530 ( 5045 )
  • City of Vernon 124 ( 59330 )
  • City of Walnut 1774 ( 5810 )
  • City of West Covina 12969 ( 11982 )
  • City of West Hollywood 2391 ( 6471 )
  • City of Westlake Village 117 ( 1400 )
  • City of Whittier 11202 ( 12812 )
  • Los Angeles 509409 ( 12595 )
  • Los Angeles – Adams-Normandie 1210 ( 14752 )
  • Los Angeles – Alsace 1603 ( 12881 )
  • Los Angeles – Angeles National Forest 5 ( 12500 )
  • Los Angeles – Angelino Heights 291 ( 11631 )
  • Los Angeles – Arleta 7121 ( 20719 )
  • Los Angeles – Atwater Village 1431 ( 9757 )
  • Los Angeles – Baldwin Hills 2782 ( 8938 )
  • Los Angeles – Bel Air 407 ( 4829 )
  • Los Angeles – Beverly Crest 663 ( 5293 )
  • Los Angeles – Beverlywood 948 ( 7197 )
  • Los Angeles – Boyle Heights* 17553 ( 20203 )
  • Los Angeles – Brentwood 1593 ( 5146 )
  • Los Angeles – Brookside 33 ( 5680 )
  • Los Angeles – Cadillac-Corning 723 ( 10153 )
  • Los Angeles – Canoga Park 9512 ( 14569 )
  • Los Angeles – Carthay 959 ( 6677 )
  • Los Angeles – Central 7666 ( 19660 )
  • Los Angeles – Century City 639 ( 4995 )
  • Los Angeles – Century Palms/Cove 6318 ( 18711 )
  • Los Angeles – Chatsworth 3716 ( 10027 )
  • Los Angeles – Cheviot Hills 464 ( 5059 )
  • Los Angeles – Chinatown 741 ( 9238 )
  • Los Angeles – Cloverdale/Cochran 1614 ( 11090 )
  • Los Angeles – Country Club Park 1562 ( 10308 )
  • Los Angeles – Crenshaw District 1484 ( 10731 )
  • Los Angeles – Crestview 1042 ( 9166 )
  • Los Angeles – Del Rey 2046 ( 6835 )
  • Los Angeles – Downtown* 4140 ( 15051 )
  • Los Angeles – Eagle Rock 3706 ( 9361 )
  • Los Angeles – East Hollywood 3294 ( 11247 )
  • Los Angeles – Echo Park 1351 ( 9477 )
  • Los Angeles – El Sereno 6256 ( 14964 )
  • Los Angeles – Elysian Park 518 ( 9069 )
  • Los Angeles – Elysian Valley 1316 ( 12939 )
  • Los Angeles – Encino 3485 ( 7715 )
  • Los Angeles – Exposition 367 ( 11034 )
  • Los Angeles – Exposition Park 6270 ( 13959 )
  • Los Angeles – Faircrest Heights 274 ( 7611 )
  • Los Angeles – Figueroa Park Square 1363 ( 15629 )
  • Los Angeles – Florence-Firestone 9342 ( 19690 )
  • Los Angeles – Glassell Park 3456 ( 10935 )
  • Los Angeles – Gramercy Place 1353 ( 12570 )
  • Los Angeles – Granada Hills 6637 ( 11406 )
  • Los Angeles – Green Meadows 3996 ( 18582 )
  • Los Angeles – Hancock Park 1059 ( 6215 )
  • Los Angeles – Harbor City 2572 ( 8848 )
  • Los Angeles – Harbor Gateway 5001 ( 11470 )
  • Los Angeles – Harbor Pines 174 ( 7223 )
  • Los Angeles – Harvard Heights 2606 ( 14450 )
  • Los Angeles – Harvard Park 7280 ( 19191 )
  • Los Angeles – Highland Park 5833 ( 12054 )
  • Los Angeles – Historic Filipinotown 2080 ( 14996 )
  • Los Angeles – Hollywood 5649 ( 8276 )
  • Los Angeles – Hollywood Hills 1596 ( 5422 )
  • Los Angeles – Hyde Park 3777 ( 13234 )
  • Los Angeles – Jefferson Park 1176 ( 14567 )
  • Los Angeles – Koreatown 5612 ( 10856 )
  • Los Angeles – Lafayette Square 540 ( 11845 )
  • Los Angeles – Lake Balboa 5473 ( 12967 )
  • Los Angeles – Lakeview Terrace 2334 ( 17772 )
  • Los Angeles – Leimert Park 1618 ( 10620 )
  • Los Angeles – Lincoln Heights 5132 ( 15744 )
  • Los Angeles – Little Armenia 1175 ( 14642 )
  • Los Angeles – Little Bangladesh 2816 ( 9935 )
  • Los Angeles – Little Tokyo 405 ( 12927 )
  • Los Angeles – Longwood 590 ( 13708 )
  • Los Angeles – Los Feliz 1072 ( 4961 )
  • Los Angeles – Manchester Square 972 ( 11387 )
  • Los Angeles – Mandeville Canyon 162 ( 5186 )
  • Los Angeles – Mar Vista 2090 ( 4921 )
  • Los Angeles – Marina Peninsula 151 ( 3463 )
  • Los Angeles – Melrose 8302 ( 10685 )
  • Los Angeles – Mid-city 1227 ( 8164 )
  • Los Angeles – Miracle Mile 1014 ( 5638 )
  • Los Angeles – Mission Hills 4368 ( 18106 )
  • Los Angeles – Mt. Washington 2876 ( 11911 )
  • Los Angeles – North Hills 9428 ( 15311 )
  • Los Angeles – North Hollywood 21029 ( 13888 )
  • Los Angeles – Northridge 7677 ( 10999 )
  • Los Angeles – Pacific Palisades 859 ( 4035 )
  • Los Angeles – Pacoima 17362 ( 22554 )
  • Los Angeles – Palisades Highlands 150 ( 3900 )
  • Los Angeles – Palms 2637 ( 6010 )
  • Los Angeles – Panorama City 13609 ( 18085 )
  • Los Angeles – Park La Brea 644 ( 4742 )
  • Los Angeles – Pico-Union 7168 ( 17131 )
  • Los Angeles – Playa Del Rey 115 ( 3598 )
  • Los Angeles – Playa Vista 616 ( 5627 )
  • Los Angeles – Porter Ranch 2496 ( 7014 )
  • Los Angeles – Rancho Park 380 ( 5793 )
  • Los Angeles – Regent Square 261 ( 9388 )
  • Los Angeles – Reseda 11622 ( 15169 )
  • Los Angeles – Reseda Ranch 709 ( 15293 )
  • Los Angeles – Reynier Village 273 ( 6457 )
  • Los Angeles – San Pedro* 7336 ( 9401 )
  • Los Angeles – Shadow Hills 401 ( 9027 )
  • Los Angeles – Sherman Oaks 5956 ( 6826 )
  • Los Angeles – Silverlake 3231 ( 7329 )
  • Los Angeles – South Carthay 739 ( 6975 )
  • Los Angeles – South Park 7400 ( 19494 )
  • Los Angeles – St Elmo Village 705 ( 15380 )
  • Los Angeles – Studio City 1420 ( 6328 )
  • Los Angeles – Sun Valley 9568 ( 18231 )
  • Los Angeles – Sunland 2319 ( 11363 )
  • Los Angeles – Sycamore Square 29 ( 4482 )
  • Los Angeles – Sylmar* 16265 ( 19740 )
  • Los Angeles – Tarzana 3377 ( 10937 )
  • Los Angeles – Temple-Beaudry 5115 ( 12955 )
  • Los Angeles – Thai Town 907 ( 9247 )
  • Los Angeles – Toluca Lake 518 ( 5951 )
  • Los Angeles – Toluca Terrace 146 ( 11179 )
  • Los Angeles – Toluca Woods 111 ( 5974 )
  • Los Angeles – Tujunga 2982 ( 10723 )
  • Los Angeles – University Hills 272 ( 7932 )
  • Los Angeles – University Park 3597 ( 13101 )
  • Los Angeles – Valley Glen 3895 ( 12976 )
  • Los Angeles – Valley Village 2089 ( 8451 )
  • Los Angeles – Van Nuys* 14751 ( 15828 )
  • Los Angeles – Venice 1758 ( 5188 )
  • Los Angeles – Vermont Knolls 2875 ( 16715 )
  • Los Angeles – Vermont Square 1488 ( 19433 )
  • Los Angeles – Vermont Vista 7614 ( 18487 )
  • Los Angeles – Vernon Central 11150 ( 21443 )
  • Los Angeles – Victoria Park 1058 ( 12597 )
  • Los Angeles – View Heights 229 ( 6199 )
  • Los Angeles – Watts 7588 ( 17781 )
  • Los Angeles – Wellington Square 588 ( 11963 )
  • Los Angeles – West Adams 4035 ( 14604 )
  • Los Angeles – West Hills 3088 ( 7616 )
  • Los Angeles – West Los Angeles 2466 ( 6552 )
  • Los Angeles – West Vernon 10216 ( 19044 )
  • Los Angeles – Westchester 2579 ( 4998 )
  • Los Angeles – Westlake 7815 ( 13167 )
  • Los Angeles – Westwood 2854 ( 5275 )
  • Los Angeles – Wholesale District* 6429 ( 17795 )
  • Los Angeles – Wilmington 8521 ( 15085 )
  • Los Angeles – Wilshire Center 5657 ( 11276 )
  • Los Angeles – Winnetka 6857 ( 13241 )
  • Los Angeles – Woodland Hills 5182 ( 7614 )
  • Unincorporated – Acton 499 ( 6260 )
  • Unincorporated – Agua Dulce 291 ( 6999 )
  • Unincorporated – Altadena 3361 ( 7705 )
  • Unincorporated – Anaverde 150 ( 9947 )
  • Unincorporated – Angeles National Forest 33 ( 2651 )
  • Unincorporated – Arcadia 612 ( 7668 )
  • Unincorporated – Athens-Westmont 6426 ( 15141 )
  • Unincorporated – Athens Village 1078 ( 22013 )
  • Unincorporated – Avocado Heights 1092 ( 16118 )
  • Unincorporated – Azusa 2383 ( 14966 )
  • Unincorporated – Bassett 2642 ( 17831 )
  • Unincorporated – Bouquet Canyon 49 ( 4567 )
  • Unincorporated – Bradbury 52 ( 48148 )
  • Unincorporated – Canyon Country 855 ( 11064 )
  • Unincorporated – Castaic* 3764 ( 13843 )
  • Unincorporated – Cerritos 72 ( 12266 )
  • Unincorporated – Charter Oak 0 ( 0 )
  • Unincorporated – Claremont 41 ( 5840 )
  • Unincorporated – Covina 2351 ( 13978 )
  • Unincorporated – Covina (Charter Oak) 1545 ( 11754 )
  • Unincorporated – Del Aire 318 ( 7239 )
  • Unincorporated – Del Rey 32 ( 10063 )
  • Unincorporated – Del Sur 171 ( 7081 )
  • Unincorporated – Desert View Highlands 366 ( 14681 )
  • Unincorporated – Duarte 856 ( 19332 )
  • Unincorporated – East Covina 34 ( 10334 )
  • Unincorporated – East La Mirada 508 ( 9599 )
  • Unincorporated – East Lancaster 17 ( 14912 )
  • Unincorporated – East Los Angeles 25065 ( 20009 )
  • Unincorporated – East Pasadena 222 ( 3467 )
  • Unincorporated – East Rancho Dominguez 2801 ( 18298 )
  • Unincorporated – East Whittier 477 ( 8990 )
  • Unincorporated – El Camino Village 843 ( 9589 )
  • Unincorporated – El Monte 24 ( 16552 )
  • Unincorporated – Elizabeth Lake 82 ( 4937 )
  • Unincorporated – Florence-Firestone 13693 ( 21162 )
  • Unincorporated – Franklin Canyon 1 ( 8333 )
  • Unincorporated – Glendora 69 ( 10455 )
  • Unincorporated – Hacienda Heights 5264 ( 9412 )
  • Unincorporated – Harbor Gateway 0 ( 0 )
  • Unincorporated – Hawthorne 322 ( 12808 )
  • Unincorporated – Hi Vista 45 ( 4098 )
  • Unincorporated – Kagel/Lopez Canyons 272 ( 19263 )
  • Unincorporated – La Crescenta-Montrose 1131 ( 5712 )
  • Unincorporated – La Habra Heights 16 ( 2367 )
  • Unincorporated – La Rambla 274 ( 13205 )
  • Unincorporated – La Verne* 167 ( 8186 )
  • Unincorporated – Ladera Heights 403 ( 5699 )
  • Unincorporated – Lake Hughes 42 ( 6287 )
  • Unincorporated – Lake Los Angeles 1604 ( 12344 )
  • Unincorporated – Lake Manor 133 ( 8095 )
  • Unincorporated – Lakewood 0 ( 0 )
  • Unincorporated – Lennox 3567 ( 15824 )
  • Unincorporated – Leona Valley 114 ( 6511 )
  • Unincorporated – Littlerock 540 ( 13429 )
  • Unincorporated – Littlerock/Juniper Hills 126 ( 9715 )
  • Unincorporated – Littlerock/Pearblossom 537 ( 15046 )
  • Unincorporated – Llano 41 ( 4675 )
  • Unincorporated – Marina del Rey 403 ( 4282 )
  • Unincorporated – Miracle Mile 0 ( 0 )
  • Unincorporated – Monrovia 377 ( 9714 )
  • Unincorporated – Newhall 69 ( 31364 )
  • Unincorporated – North Lancaster 163 ( 13606 )
  • Unincorporated – North Whittier 1121 ( 13409 )
  • Unincorporated – Northeast San Gabriel 1636 ( 6806 )
  • Unincorporated – Padua Hills 9 ( 4186 )
  • Unincorporated – Palmdale 111 ( 13183 )
  • Unincorporated – Palos Verdes Peninsula 23 ( 3704 )
  • Unincorporated – Pearblossom/Llano 129 ( 6595 )
  • Unincorporated – Pellissier Village 170 ( 27464 )
  • Unincorporated – Placerita Canyon 3 ( 652 )
  • Unincorporated – Pomona 61 ( 3148 )
  • Unincorporated – Quartz Hill 1230 ( 9530 )
  • Unincorporated – Rancho Dominguez 388 ( 14581 )
  • Unincorporated – Roosevelt 93 ( 9989 )
  • Unincorporated – Rosewood 165 ( 12830 )
  • Unincorporated – Rosewood/East Gardena 154 ( 12909 )
  • Unincorporated – Rosewood/West Rancho Dominguez 509 ( 15144 )
  • Unincorporated – Rowland Heights 3669 ( 7191 )
  • Unincorporated – San Clemente Island 0 ( 0 )
  • Unincorporated – San Francisquito Canyon/Bouquet Canyon 15 ( 1748 )
  • Unincorporated – San Jose Hills 3513 ( 17373 )
  • Unincorporated – San Pasqual 39 ( 1916 )
  • Unincorporated – Sand Canyon 17 ( 5519 )
  • Unincorporated – Santa Catalina Island 164 ( 61423 )
  • Unincorporated – Santa Monica Mountains* 721 ( 3872 )
  • Unincorporated – Saugus 132 ( 85161 )
  • Unincorporated – Saugus/Canyon Country 40 ( 11236 )
  • Unincorporated – South Antelope Valley 28 ( 6154 )
  • Unincorporated – South El Monte 348 ( 19387 )
  • Unincorporated – South San Gabriel 942 ( 10646 )
  • Unincorporated – South Whittier 8449 ( 14267 )
  • Unincorporated – Southeast Antelope Valley 79 ( 10115 )
  • Unincorporated – Stevenson Ranch 1182 ( 5638 )
  • Unincorporated – Sun Village 956 ( 15838 )
  • Unincorporated – Sunrise Village 195 ( 15046 )
  • Unincorporated – Twin Lakes/Oat Mountain 96 ( 5790 )
  • Unincorporated – Val Verde 339 ( 10245 )
  • Unincorporated – Valencia 200 ( 6510 )
  • Unincorporated – Valinda 3776 ( 16157 )
  • Unincorporated – View Park/Windsor Hills 710 ( 6102 )
  • Unincorporated – Walnut Park 3081 ( 19086 )
  • Unincorporated – West Antelope Valley 57 ( 3772 )
  • Unincorporated – West Carson 2280 ( 10323 )
  • Unincorporated – West Chatsworth 2 ( 16667 )
  • Unincorporated – West LA 234 ( 24580 )
  • Unincorporated – West Puente Valley 1726 ( 17550 )
  • Unincorporated – West Rancho Dominguez 201 ( 14790 )
  • Unincorporated – West Whittier/Los Nietos 4251 ( 15788 )
  • Unincorporated – Westfield/Academy Hills 44 ( 3385 )
  • Unincorporated – Westhills 42 ( 5006 )
  • Unincorporated – White Fence Farms 284 ( 7711 )
  • Unincorporated – Whittier 321 ( 8483 )
  • Unincorporated – Whittier Narrows 15 ( 125000 )
  • Unincorporated – Willowbrook 6130 ( 17558 )
  • Unincorporated – Wiseburn 521 ( 8644 )
  • – Under Investigation 15358

These numbers are subject to change based on further investigation. 17 cases and 1 death previously reported were not in Public Health’s jurisdiction. * Means that case numbers include cases associated with correctional facility outbreaks located in the city/community. **Rate is crude and is per 100,000. This represents the number of cases per 100,000 people and allows for the proportional comparison of cities of different sizes.

Always check with trusted sources for the latest accurate information about novel coronavirus:

The Department of Public Health is committed to promoting health equity and ensuring optimal health and well-being for all 10 million residents of Los Angeles County. Through a variety of programs, community partnerships and services, Public Health oversees environmental health, disease control, and community and family health. Nationally accredited by the Public Health Accreditation Board, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health comprises nearly 4,500 employees and has an annual budget of $1.2 billion. To learn more about Los Angeles County Public Health, please visit www.publichealth .lacounty.gov, and follow LA County Public Health on social media at twitter.com/lacounty.gov, and follow LA County Public Health on social media at twitter.com/lapublichealth, facebook.com/lapublichealth, instagram.com/lapublichealth and youtube.com/lapublichealth.

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Ex-Hollywood Foreign Press president called BLM a ‘racist hate movement’

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The former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association sent an email calling Black Lives Matter a racist movement, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday.

The former president of the association that hands out the Golden Globes awards, Phil Berk, also described Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, as a “self-proclaimed ‘trained Marxist” in the email, which the Times reported was sent to the press association’s members, staff and its general counsel and chief operating officer, Gregory Goeckner. 

Berk, who had served eight terms as president of the organization, also shared an article titled “BLM Goes Hollywood” in the email. Berk did not cite the source for the story, but it came from conservative commentator David Horowitz’s Freedom Center website, FrontPage Mag, according to the Times. 

The article that Berk shared took issue with Cullors buying a $1.4 million California home after national outrage and protests on racial injustice happened last summer. 

The Golden Globes before its awards ceremony this spring had come under criticism for a lack of nominations both this year and historically for Black artists. It is a part of a criticism that has also been made about other awards ceremonies. 

This year’s Golden Globes winners did include several Black artists, such as Daniel Kaluuya for supporting actor for his performance in Judas and the Black Messiah, and Andra Day for best actress in The United States vs. Billie Holliday. The late Chadwick Boseman also won best actor for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

Members of HFPA’s Board responded openly denounced Berk over the email.

The HFPA said to LA Times in a statement that “Since its inception, the HFPA has dedicated itself to bridging cultural connections and creating further understanding of different backgrounds through film and TV. The views expressed in the article circulated by Mr. Berk are those of the author of the article and do not — in any way shape or form — reflect the views and values of the HFPA. The HFPA condemns all forms of racism, discrimination and hate speech and finds such language and content unacceptable.”

The Hill has reached out to Black Lives Matter to comment on Berk’s remarks. 



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Watch Live: Biden’s first presidential press conference

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President Biden is giving his first press conference as president on Thursday afternoon. While Mr. Biden has periodically taken questions from reporters, he has not yet had a full press conference since taking office.

CBS News is carrying his remarks live on local CBS stations as a Special Report. CBSN is broadcasting the press conference in full as well.

Mr. Biden has been criticized by conservatives and even some political allies for his delay in holding a formal press conference. By this point in their presidencies, former Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama had formally taken questions from reporters.  

How to watch President Biden’s first press conference

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday that Mr. Biden is “thinking about what he wants to say, what he wants to convey, where he can provide updates and looking forward to the opportunity to engage with a free press.”

Before taking questions on Thursday, Mr. Biden announced he is doubling his COVID-19 vaccine goal, vowing 200 million vaccine shots in his first 100 days in office — up from 100 million. Meeting that goal would require the U.S. to roughly keep the current pace of vaccinations.

“I know it’s ambitious, twice our original goal, but no other country has even come close,” the president said.

Mr. Biden also touted the results of the American Rescue Plan, and noted that most Americans who are receiving stimulus checks have already received them.

“Help is here, and hope is on the way,” he said.

Mr. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have been traveling the country to tout the American Rescue Plan, the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief measure signed into law earlier this month. 

Mr. Biden is soon expected to unveil the details of a major infrastructure package, and was likely to field questions on Thursday about his forthcoming proposal, immigration and gun control.

On Tuesday, he called on the Senate to move forward with two bills passed by the House aimed at reducing gun violence, following deadly shootings in Colorado and Georgia. Psaki said the White House is not ruling out executive actions on gun violence.

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Democrats are renewing their efforts to make the biggest overhaul to US elections in a generation and safeguard voting rights, setting up a battle with Republicans, who at a state level are making a huge effort in the opposite direction to reduce voting rights.

Democrats and Republicans both see the proposed federal legislation, which touches on nearly every aspect of the electoral process, as fundamental to their parties’ political futures. The Senate bill, similar to a version passed by the House earlier this month, could shape election outcomes for years to come, striking down hurdles to voting, requiring more disclosure from political donors, restricting partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts and bolstering election security and ethics laws.

The debate over who has the right to vote, and how elections are conducted, will play out for months, if not years. Democrats say they are trying to rebuild trust in the ballot after two tumultuous election cycles. Republicans charge the bill would strip power from the states and cement an unfair political advantage for Democrats.

Mary Clare Jalonick writes for the Associated Press that with Republicans unanimously opposed, the legislation presents a crucial test of how hard Biden and his party are willing to fight for their priorities, as well as those of their voters. Unless they unite around changing Senate rules, which now require 60 votes for most bills to advance, their chance to enshrine expansive voting protections could quickly slip away.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said yesterday it took “mighty movements and decades of fraught political conflict” to achieve the basic dignities of current election laws and “any American who thinks that the fight for a full and fair democracy is over, is sadly and sorely mistaken.”

Democrats see the measure as a forceful response to voting rights restrictions advancing in Republican-controlled statehouses across the country in the wake of Donald Trump’s repeated, baseless claims of a stolen 2020 election.

“In the end, that insurrection was about an angry mob working to undermine our democracy,” Sen Amy Klobuchar said yesterday. “And it reminds all of us how very fragile our democracy truly is, and how it is on all of us to not just protect that democracy, but to ensure that it thrives.”

The Senate legislation would create automatic voter registration nationwide, allow former felons to vote, and limit the ways states can remove registered voters from their rolls. It would expand voting by mail, promote early voting and give states money to track absentee ballots.

The bill would increase oversight for election vendors and boost support for state voting system upgrades after Russia attempted to breach some of those systems in the 2016 election. It would overhaul federal oversight of campaign finance and encourage small donations to campaigns, while requiring more disclosure of political donations. And it would require states to adopt independent redistricting commissions to draw congressional districts and give more teeth to federal ethics enforcement.

The legislation is meant to counter the more than 250 bills have have been introduced in 43 states that would change how Americans vote. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell however described the proposed move in Congress a “clearly an effort by one party to rewrite the rules of our political system,” McConnell said.

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White House allows press into HHS immigration facility but not one spotlighted by congressmen for crowded conditions

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The Carrizo Springs, Texas, facility is an example of the types of shelters the administration has been scrambling to find to accommodate children. These facilities, run by the Department of Health and Human Services, are equipped to provide medical services, sleeping quarters, and other support.

But amid Covid-19 constraints, there’s not been enough shelter space to house the growing number of arrivals, resulting in children staying in Border Patrol facilities, akin to jail-like conditions, for prolonged periods of time. The Carrizo Springs facility is far different from the Border Patrol location seen in images released by a congressman highlighting crowded conditions.

The Biden administration has yet to let news cameras inside US Customs and Border Protection facilities where children have been detained, on average, for longer than the 72 hours allowed under law, though CBP released government footage of one of those facilities earlier this week.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday that the administration would provide media access to those Border Patrol facilities as well.

“This is just the first step in the process of providing greater access to the media,” Psaki told CNN’s Jeff Zeleny at a White House briefing.

“We all agree that the Border Patrol facilities are not places where children should be. They are, children should be moving more quickly through those facilities, that is what our policy central focus is right now,” Psaki said.

The Carrizo Springs facility was initially opened under the Trump administration in 2019 to house a surge of unaccompanied minors coming across the border. It is intended to shelter minors, unlike Border Patrol facilities.

The facility is available for children ages 13 to 17, according to HHS. Since opening, 1,026 children have been placed at the shelter and 216 children have been discharged, the department says. There are currently 766 minors at the site. Capacity is 952.

According to a network reporter accompanying the delegation, 108 of the children in this facility have tested positive for Covid-19 and did so when they arrived. They are kept in negative air pressure dormitories and released after they have two negative Covid tests.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas recently led a bipartisan delegation of senators to El Paso, Texas, to tour facilities and reporters were not allowed to accompany them. The Department of Homeland Security said the trip was closed to journalists because of privacy and Covid-19 precautions.

The Biden administration is scrambling to accommodate a surge in unaccompanied minors arriving at the US-Mexico border that has overwhelmed and strained government resources.

As of Tuesday, more than 880 unaccompanied migrant children have been in Border Patrol custody for more than 10 days, according to documents reviewed by CNN.

Federal law requires unaccompanied children to be turned over within 72 hours to HHS, which oversees a shelter network designed to house minors, but amid constraints related to the pandemic, children are staying in custody for longer than the 72-hour limit.

Senior Biden administration officials traveled on Monday to Mexico to discuss managing migration with government officials. 

Roberta Jacobson, the Biden administration’s coordinator for the southern border, Juan Gonzalez, the National Security Council’s senior director for the Western Hemisphere, and State Department’s Northern Triangle special envoy Ricardo Zúñiga are on the trip. Gonzalez and Zúñiga are also traveling to Guatemala to hold meetings after the Mexico trip.

This story has been updated with details of the visit.

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Lawmakers press Biden administration to grant media access to border facilities

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A growing chorus of lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have called on the Biden administration to allow reporters and journalists into facilities housing unaccompanied migrant children who have sought asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The appeal for greater transparency with the American public and those who cover it comes as the U.S. faces a growing humanitarian crisis at its southwest border, driven by Central America’s economic devastation, climate change, gang violence and political persecution, as well as a new presidential administration.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas predicts the U.S. is on pace to encounter more migrants at its southwest border than in 20 years. Amid the ongoing surge in crossings, President Biden said Sunday that “at some point” he will be going to the border.

Senator Rob Portman, ranking member on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and one of four senators who accompanied Mayorkas to the border on Friday, told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” that he will “absolutely” push to open Custom and Border Protection (CBP) facilities to journalists amid calls for transparency.

“This should be transparent,” Portman said. “It’s amazing to me how little my constituents know about what’s going on down along the border. It is a situation spiraling out of control.”

Senator Chris Murphy, chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Homeland Security, also participated in the trip to the U.S.-Mexico border. The Democratic lawmaker told NPR on Saturday that opening up access to media coverage is “something that we should all press the administration to do better on.” 

“We want to make sure that the press has access to hold the administration accountable,” he said. “That’s the reason I was there, to hold them accountable. And they’ve seen a surge that began last year, that began under the Trump administration, but it’s real. It’s pressing their resources.”

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer awaits immigrants crossing into the United States on March 16, 2021 in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

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As of Saturday morning, more than 5,000 unaccompanied minors remained in a CBP tent holding facility in south Texas and other stations along the border with Mexico. According to the government records, unaccompanied children are spending an average of 136 hours in CBP custody, far beyond the 72-hour legal limit.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was also housing nearly 10,500 unaccompanied children in emergency housing facilities and shelters licensed by states to care for minors, according to department spokesperson Mark Weber.

Another lawmaker on the trip, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Homeland Security, told The Washington Post on Saturday that more than 200 border agents have been diverted to a Customs and Border Protection processing center in El Paso to care for children.

According to Capito, as many as 100 migrant children were being held in a large room at the facility amid the coronavirus pandemic, and many are being held in CBP custody beyond the legal limit of 72 hours before transfer into HHS custody. Capito expressed concern about the overstay in CBP facilities, noting, “They’ll move 50 out a night [and] have another 100 come in that night.”

The Republican senator also told The Washington Post that she reinforced to the DHS secretary that reporters should be allowed inside border facilities. “I pleaded with him to have as much transparency with us … but with the press as well,” Capito said.

In an interview with ABC News on Sunday, Mayorkas cited both privacy and health concerns in letting reporters into the facilities. “Let me be clear, we’re in the midst of the pandemic. We’re talking about a crowded Border Patrol station where we are focused on operations,” Mayorkas said.

“At the same time, and let me assure you, that we are working on a plan to provide access so that people could see what is going on at Border Patrol stations,” the DHS secretary continued. “I would encourage people to also see the Department of Health and Human Services facility where the children are sheltered and where they belong and where we are moving them to.”

The delegation’s trip to the border on Friday remained closed to press “due to privacy and COVID-19 precautions,” according to the DHS statement.

A Biden administration official indicated on Thursday that DHS made an “operational decision” in March 2020 “to discourage visitors” because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and that rule “still stands.”

Journalists were permitted into government facilities to inspect the conditions and speak with asylum seekers during past migrant surges, including under the Trump administration in 2018 and Obama administration in 2014. 

White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Wednesday that the Biden administration did not have a timeline for when the public would be able to see the conditions inside border facilities, amid repeated questioning in the White House briefing room. 

“We remain committed to sharing with all of you data on the number of kids crossing the border, the steps we’re taking, the work we’re doing to open up facilities, our own bar we’re setting for ourselves, improving the and expediting the timeline and the treatment of these children,” Psaki said, deferring further questions to the Department of Homeland Security. “And we remain committed to transparency. I don’t have an update for you on the timeline for access, but it’s certainly something we support.”

In addition to media access, the Biden administration has not provided photos nor video documenting the inside of crowded government facilities housing migrant children amid the COVID-19 public emergency. 

But the Biden administration, including Homeland Security officials, have repeatedly vowed to expand transparency and access into department operations since before the president’s inauguration. In his confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on January 19, Mayorkas promised “to elevate the level of public engagement, so that we are a transparent agency — transparent not only to the public that we serve, but to the media whose responsibility it is in part to hold us accountable.”

Camilo Montoya-Galvez contributed to this report.

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The Biden press conference controversy, explained

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As President Joe Biden signed a $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill that is supported by a solid majority of Americans and that funds distribution of coronavirus vaccines, among many other things, Fox News is fixating on something he’s not doing: holding formal news conferences.

While he’s answered questions from reporters in informal settings numerous times and held a CNN town hall, Biden has now gone 50 days without holding a formal news conference. It’d be ideal for him to do one, but there are many good reasons he hasn’t yet — the urgent public health and economic crises he inherited, a pandemic that complicates logistics, and the legacy former President Donald Trump left him of presidential news conferences doubling as hate spectacles.

Still, it’s starting to aggravate members of the press corps, with the president of the White House Correspondents Association telling Vanity Fair that full press conferences are “critical to informing the American people and holding an administration accountable.” And the Washington Post editorial board wrote that “it’s past time for Biden to hold a news conference” — even while acknowledging that more press availability didn’t equal more truth or transparency with the previous president.

The careful wording of the Post’s editorial board exemplifies how journalists are having to reevaluate relationships to power and what it means to do adversarial journalism now that the White House isn’t the home of a habitual liar who routinely made reporters objects of hate, even while he was accessible to them with regular helicopter-side press availabilities and coronavirus press briefings that are best remembered for Trump floating the idea of disinfectant as a cure for Covid-19.

But on the cable network that benefited most from the Trump presidency, all of that nuance is lost.

Fox News has done its best in recent days to blow up the fact Biden hasn’t yet had a formal news conference into a major scandal, complete with special graphics and coverage across shows suggesting Biden is hiding something.

On Thursday morning alone, Fox News hosts said things like “President Biden blows off questions from reporters as he goes 50 days without a formal press conference,” and “here we are, day 50 — 50 days into the Biden presidency — and we’ve got a primetime address, but still no formal news conference.”

While it’s true that Biden has broken from modern precedent in not holding a news conference sometime in his first month in office, press secretary Jen Psaki answers questions from reporters every weekday during briefings that illustrate one of the reasons Biden might not be in a rush to do one himself.

Fox News’s Peter Doocy has distinguished himself during Psaki’s briefings by regularly asking loaded, gotcha-style questions on topics ranging from the national anthem to the Olympics to energy policy to school reopenings.

One can understand why Biden, who has jousted repeatedly with Doocy during press availabilities in recent months, might want to spend his time on things other than helping Fox News create readymade clips for Hannity to own him. But his decision not to engage has fed into the narrative Fox has been pushing since the campaign about him purportedly hiding something and being lower energy than former President Donald Trump.

“Your viewers remember when [Trump] would walk out to get on Marine One, he would just do those impromptu press conferences and he’d take every question, all questions, sometimes he’d stay there for 30, 40 minutes,” said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) during Tuesday’s edition of Sean Hannity’s show. “That’s what the American people deserve.”

What Jordan and Hannity won’t mention, of course, is that while Trump may have been more willing to engage with reporters than Biden himself has so far been, the former president’s interactions with reporters were the opposite of constructive.

Trump’s news conferences are nothing to be wistful about

No discussion of the controversy surrounding Biden and news conferences (such as it is) would be complete without recalling that during the Trump years, presidential engagement with reporters was more WrestleMania than a good-faith sharing of information — something Psaki has tried and mostly succeeded in doing during her press briefings.

To be clear, political journalism that doesn’t hold the powerful to account is nothing more than public relations. Some degree of tension between the press and elected officials is a good and natural thing. But during the Trump years, the relationship between the executive branch and the journalists that covered it devolved into an abusive one.

For instance, during Trump’s first formal news conference — held on February 16, 2017 — he lambasted the press for accurately covering the circumstances surrounding the resignation of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn amid revelations he lied to the FBI about his contact with Russia, saying things like “the reporting is fake” and blasting reporters as “dishonest.”

That press conference was such a disaster that Trump went more than a full year before he held another. Yet some observers are contrasting Trump’s February 2017 cage match with the fact Biden hasn’t had a press conference yet as evidence that Biden is somehow falling short.

While Fox News would likely use a Biden press conference to create gotcha moments, there are legitimate questions the president should answer. What’s his strategy for increasing the minimum wage, given that it didn’t make it into the Covid-19 bill? What’s his long-term plan for dealing with the recent surge of undocumented immigrants at the southern border? What’s his response to Democrats who have criticized his decision to launch airstrikes in Syria?

Psaki recently told CNN that Biden plans to answer questions from reporters during a formal news conference sometime soon.

“We look forward to holding a full formal press conference, but in the meantime the president takes questions from the reporters covering the White House regularly, including this morning [on March 3],” she said. “And his focus day in and day out is on getting the pandemic under control and putting people back to work. That’s what people elected him to do.”

Indeed, while signing the Covid-19 bill on Thursday, Biden hinted he’ll hold a news conference soon, telling reporters he’ll “take questions” from them “in the next couple days.”

Fox struggles to land blows on Biden

It’s fair to point out that Biden has gone a relatively long time without having a news conference. But the tendency that has been most pronounced on Fox to blow the issue up into a major scandal illustrates the difficulty they’re having drawing blood on the Biden administration.

Before presser-gate became a big topic, Fox News spent the better part of a week blaming Biden for the (fake) cancellation of Dr. Seuss. Hannity has relentlessly pushed conspiracy theories about Biden’s health, while the network’s “news side” has been heavy on stoking right-wing grievance with never-ending discussions of “cancel culture.”

In this instance as in so many others, Fox’s coverage echoes what prominent Republicans like RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel are saying:

It’s tough for Republicans to attack Biden on the merits right now, given that even a majority of Republican voters support the signature piece of legislation he just signed. But it’s also worth noting it’s not just Fox.

On Thursday, for instance, ABC ran a piece headlined, “Biden not yet holding a news conference raises accountability questions.” And CNN on March 3 ran an article with this lede: “There are many ways to measure an American president’s accessibility. One way is by counting press conferences. Right now, by that count, President Biden looks invisible.”

But if the Trump era taught us anything, it’s that it isn’t the volume of communications a presidential administration has with the press that’s important — it’s their character and quality. Biden himself may so far be less accessible to the press than Trump was, but given what the country endured during the Trump era and the mess Biden inherited, the American people don’t seem to mind that so far he’s been focused on more pressing things.



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Harry and Meghan on how race factored into their U.K. press coverage – CBS This Morning

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Associated Press Reporter Thein Zaw Jailed in Myanmar During Bloody Protests

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Associated Press journalist Thein Zaw remains detained after he was arrested Saturday morning by police in Yangon, Myanmar while covering protests against the military coup that unseated leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government. According to the AP, he is being held in Yangon’s notorious Insein Prison, which has long been known for its inhumane treatment of political prisoners. “The Associated Press calls for the immediate release of AP journalist Thein Zaw, who was detained in Myanmar while doing his job,” said Ian Phillips, AP vice president for international news. “Independent journalists must be allowed to freely and safely report the news without fear of retribution. AP decries in the strongest terms the arbitrary detention of Thein Zaw.” Security forces in the capital city of Yangon opened fire on protesters Sunday, killing at least 18 and wounding 30, said the UN Human Rights Office, citing “credible information.”

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Prince Harry tells late-night host James Corden about royal ordeal, ‘toxic’ UK press

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Prince Harry said in an interview that aired early Friday he was “stepping back” from his duties as a British royal rather than “stepping down” — and he said the “toxic” British media was to blame.

The prince addressed the royal turmoil and other topics during an appearance on “The Late Late Show” with host James Corden.

Corden and his royal guest chatted as they visited various spots around the Los Angeles area. The interview included a ride on the top deck of a tour bus and Harry rapping out the TV theme song to the 1990s show “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”

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But in Harry’s first interview since his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, stripped Harry and wife Meghan Markle, of their remaining royal duties, family matters were a key topic.

James Corden, left, scored an interview with Prince Harry that aired early Friday on “The Late Late Show.”

Harry told Corden he was placing the interests of his immediate family members first. (He and Markle have one child, named Archie, and recently announced they are expecting another child.)

“It was stepping back rather than stepping down,” Harry told Corden. “It was a really difficult environment, which I think a lot of people saw, so I did what any father or husband would do and thought, ‘How do I get my family out of here?’ But we never walked away, and as far as I’m concerned, whatever decisions are made on that side, I will never walk away.”

As for the British press, he added: “We all know what the British press could be like, and it was destroying my mental health, I was like this is toxic. So I did what any husband and what any father would do is like, I need to get my family out of here.”

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The former royals eventually moved to Southern California after leaving Britain, with a stop in Canada in between.

Nabbing the interview with Harry helped Corden scoop Oprah Winfrey, whose conversation with Harry and Markle is scheduled to air March 7, according to The Associated Press.

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