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A governor’s veto on Wednesday night puts more than 50,000 hotel and resort workers across Orange County on edge as they were hoping to get rehiring protections.
Orange County continues to see a decline in coronavirus hospitalizations after numbers spiked last month.
OC public health director: Dine-in closures aim to curb infections.
Orange County Coronavirus hospitalizations are now rising faster than at any other point in the pandemic.
In the past two weeks 83 people have died in Orange County and 364 people were in the hospital on Tuesday.
Most of the funds haven’t yet made it into businesses’ hands, though officials say the process is well underway and the money should be distributed by July.
Homeless people are continuing to die at record-high levels in OC, with 34 deaths in April and 30 in May, compared with an average of 18 monthly deaths in the prior 12 months.
While Coronavirus outbreaks have occurred in at least 28 skilled nursing facilities, they’ve also occurred in at least six assisted living facilities and two care homes.
OC officials aren’t considering a countywide curfew following a series of largely peaceful protests against police brutality over the past week.
Orange County is considering joining Los Angeles and Riverside in allowing pools at apartment complexes or owned by homeowners’ associations to reopen.