{"id":26478,"date":"2020-06-30T17:17:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T00:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26478"},"modified":"2020-06-30T17:17:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T00:17:48","slug":"newsom-to-tighten-things-up-as-coronavirus-cases-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26478","title":{"rendered":"Newsom To &#8216;Tighten Things Up&#8217; As Coronavirus Cases Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With coronavirus cases surging, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday that he plans to \u201ctighten things up&#8221; when it comes to the state&#8217;s stay-at-home order ahead of a busy Fourth of July weekend.<\/p>\n<p>California has confirmed close to 223,000 infections, a nearly 50% increase over two weeks ago that&#8217;s been driven in part by the state&#8217;s ability to now test more than 100,000 people per day. But more concerning to officials is the steady growth in COVID-19 hospitalizations \u2014 a 43% increase in the past two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Los Angeles County on Monday announced they will close beaches and ban fireworks displays in the nation&#8217;s most populous county this weekend as it hit a one-day record of 2,903 confirmed cases and more than 100,000 overall. And in the Central Valley, officials in Fresno ordered all bars to close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With coronavirus cases surging, California Gov.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26479,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26478\/revisions\/26479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}