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Coronavirus updates: Los Angeles County to prohibit gatherings, close playgrounds

PHOTO: Kim Prince, owner of the Hotville Chicken, stands for a portrait with tables and chairs from the closed indoor dining area of her restaurant at Baldwin Hills Crenshaw in Los Angeles, Nov. 24, 2020.
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US crosses 250,000 coronavirus deaths
By Morgan Winsor, Ivan Pereira, Meredith Deliso
Last Updated: November 28, 2020, 4:28 AM
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Last Updated: November 28, 2020, 4:28 AM

A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 61 million people and killed over 1.4 million worldwide, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

Latest headlines:

  • US tops 13 million cases 
  • Brazil's president says he won't take a COVID-19 vaccine
  • COVID-19 patient with 'irreversible lung damage' recovers after transplant
  • COVID-19 cases in US may be about 8 times higher than reported
  • Moscow sees 311% spike in COVID-19 deaths
Here's how the news developed this week. All times Eastern.

Nov 28, 2020 4:28 AM

NFL closing team facilities Monday, Tuesday

The National Football League is closing all team facilities to in-person activities on Monday and Tuesday.

The ban doesn't apply to teams scheduled to play on those days, including a Steelers-Ravens game on Tuesday that's already been rescheduled twice.

The NFL cited in a league-wide memo rising COVID-19 cases in the U.S. and the "understanding that a number of players and staff celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday with out-of-town guests" as reasons for the closures.

ABC News' Kelsey Walsh contributed to this report.


Nov 27, 2020 11:50 PM

LA County to prohibit gatherings, close playgrounds

Public and private gatherings with those outside your household will be prohibited in Los Angeles County starting Monday under a new public health order.

Playgrounds and cardrooms will also close, among other restrictions.

As new COVID-19 cases remain at alarming levels and the number of people hospitalized continue to increase, a temporary Los Angeles County Health Officer Order will be issued to require additional safety measures across sectors.

— LA Public Health (@lapublichealth) November 27, 2020

Religious gatherings and protests are exempt from the temporary order, which will remain in effect through Dec. 20.

The measures come as the county continues to see "alarming levels" of new COVID-19 cases and increasing hospitalizations, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said.

As of Wednesday, outdoor dining in the county is on pause for the next three weeks.

Officials had warned additional lockdown measures would come once the five-day average of cases reached 4,500. On Friday, that number was 4,751.

ABC News' Matthew Fuhrman and Bonnie Mclean contributed to this report


Nov 27, 2020 10:15 PM

US tops 13 million cases 

More than 13 million people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the U.S., according to Johns Hopkins University.  

The U.S. crossed 12 million cases six days ago. 

Experts have cautioned against reading too much into data reported before next week, as some state updates may be spotty due to the Thanksgiving holiday.



Nov 27, 2020 9:56 PM

Vermont officials urge residents to quarantine after Thanksgiving

Vermont officials are urging people who had Thanksgiving gatherings with those outside their household to now quarantine.

“My request to Vermonters who may have participated in travel and/or multi-household gatherings is simply this: Please quarantine yourselves at home, and please get tested now and in seven days,” state Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine said during a press briefing Friday. 

Gov. Phil Scott echoed the health commissioner’s request. 

“If you have had one of those gatherings yesterday, then you shouldn't send your kids to school next week," he said. "You should quarantine your kids for at least seven days, get a test, and then we'll move forward."

Unfortunately, we know some will still get together and schools have asked for help. @VTEducation will direct schools to ask students or parents if they were part of multi-family gatherings and if the answer is yes, they'll need to go remote for 14 days or 7 days and a test. 9/

— Governor Phil Scott (@GovPhilScott) November 24, 2020

Scott said earlier in the week that school officials will ask returning students if they attended a Thanksgiving gathering with people outside their household to determine quarantine requirements.

"We did all of this to try and protect Vermont, to try and prevent the rise in the number of cases," Scott said Friday.

ABC News' Joshua Hoyos contributed to this report


Nov 23, 2020 10:39 AM

US reports over 142,000 new cases

There were 142,732 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in the United States on Sunday, according to a real-time count kept by Johns Hopkins University.

It's the 20th straight day that the country has reported over 100,000 newly diagnosed infections. Sunday's count falls under the all-time high of 196,004 new cases on Nov. 20.

An additional 921 fatalities from COVID-19 were also registered nationwide on Sunday, down from a peak of 2,609 new deaths on April 15.

PHOTO: A waiter wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) returns a credit card to a customer dining outdoors in Manhattan Beach, California, on Nov. 21, 2020.
Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
A waiter wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) returns a credit card to a customer dining outdoors in Manhattan Beach, California, on Nov. 21, 2020, a few hours before the start of the new 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. curfew during increased COVID-19 restrictions.
Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

A total of 12,247,487 people in the United States have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the pandemic began, and at least 256,783 of them have died, according to Johns Hopkins. The cases include people from all 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C. and other U.S. territories as well as repatriated citizens.

Much of the country was under lockdown by the end of March as the first wave of pandemic hit. By May 20, all U.S. states had begun lifting stay-at-home orders and other restrictions put in place to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. The day-to-day increase in the country's cases then hovered around 20,000 for a couple of weeks before shooting back up and crossing 100,000 for the first time on Nov. 4.


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