This post was updated May 2 at 2:09 p.m. Five workers at the Westwood Village Ralphs on Weyburn Avenue have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Read more...
Photo: The Westwood Village Ralphs employs five workers who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus as of Thursday. The grocery store declined to comment. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Latino and Asian majority neighborhoods in Los Angeles County are especially economically vulnerable to disruptions caused by COVID-19, a UCLA study found. The study, which was published April 1 by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative and the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge, sought to locate neighborhoods in LA County that are particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus because of their large number of at-risk workers. Read more...
Photo: A recent study from the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative and the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge found that Latino- and Asian-majority neighborhoods are particularly vulnerable to the economic impacts of the coronavirus outbreak. (Daily Bruin file photo)
A UCLA School of Law project is helping judges and advocates respond to the impact of the novel coronavirus in prisons. Sharon Dolovich, a UCLA School of Law professor and Director of the UCLA Prison Law & Policy Program, founded the UCLA COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project on March 17 to track health conditions in incarceration facilities and efforts to decrease prison populations during the pandemic. Read more...
Photo: Researchers at the UCLA School of Law started a data project on March 17 to track health conditions in incarceration facilities and efforts to decrease populations in those facilities. The project has since grown and received positive feedback from judges and advocates using the data for related cases. (Tanmay Shankar/Assistant Photo editor)
This post was updated April 29 at 7:18 p.m. All Los Angeles County residents, both with and without symptoms, can receive a free test for the novel coronavirus as of Wednesday. Read more...
Photo: Los Angeles County residents can now receive a free test for COVID-19 even if they do not have any symptoms, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Wednesday. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Defying stay-at-home orders, scores of protesters drove to Los Angeles City Hall on Wednesday to demand the city reopen nonessential businesses amid the coronavirus pandemic. The protest is one of a series of “Operation Gridlock” rallies across the country, including a similar march at Huntington Beach on Friday, criticizing the stay-at-home orders’ effect on the economy. Read more...
Photo: Alma Villanueva, a supporter of President Donald Trump, waves an American flag on top of a convertible circling around Civic Center. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Los Angeles will offer coronavirus testing to all essential workers, both with and without symptoms, starting Thursday. LA Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Wednesday that asymptomatic health care professionals, grocery store workers, first responders, critical government personnel and other essential workers will now also be able to receive tests for the coronavirus. Workers should contact their employers to learn how to obtain the priority testing at one of 34 testing sites in the city of LA and LA County, Garcetti said. Read more...
Photo: All essential workers in Los Angeles will be able to receive tests for the coronavirus starting Thursday, even if they are asymptomatic. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin senior staff)
John Sungkamee’s Westwood restaurant Emporium Thai was on the cusp of its 20-year anniversary when Los Angeles restaurants were ordered to switch to delivery and takeout only. Read more...
Photo: Sequential government orders have limited restaurants and bars in Westwood Village to takeout and delivery options. The economic toll of the limits and the coronavirus pandemic has even forced some to close and has left others on the edge. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin senior staff)
