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L.A. County stay-at-home order will 'with all certainty' be extended nearly three months

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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateLos Angeles County, the epicenter of California's coronavirus outbreak, is almost certain to extend its stay-at-home mandate until August, .County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer told the Board of Supervisors Tuesday that the quarantine order will "with all certainty" be in effect through the next two and a half months."Our hope is that by using the data, we’d be able to slowly lift restrictions over the next three months," she said at the supervisors meeting. Only a "dramatic change to the virus and tools at hand" would shorten the timeline.Experts believe without widespread testing and a robust contact-tracing program to identify people who came in contact with COVID-19 patients, it will be difficult to safely reopen the state. Los Angeles County also hasn't hit a key benchmark for reopening: a decline in cases and deaths for 14 days.Of the county's 10 million residents, 240,000 have been tested; the Times reports 12% of the tests came back positive.&nbsp;As of Tuesday afternoon, there have been 32,258 confirmed cases and 1,569 deaths from COVID-19 in Los Angeles County. By comparison, the nine-county Bay Area has seen about 360 deaths."It’s safer to stay at home. COVID-19 has not changed," Ferrer said Monday.After months in lockdown, , going to work and loosen slightly. Gov. Gavin Newsom's four-stage plan to reopen the state is currently in stage two. Starting last week, most counties began allowing non-essential businesses to do curbside pickup. Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties still have a stricter order in place and are not yet allowing non-essential businesses to operate.Beaches in Los Angeles County are , although with rules in place. No sitting or lying in the sand is allowed, and residents must practice physical distancing and wear face coverings.MORE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE:Sign up for 'The Daily' newsletter for the latest on coronavirus&nbsp;.Katie Dowd is a senior digital editor with SFGATE. Email her: katie.dowd@sfgate.com.

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateLos Angeles County, the epicenter of California's coronavirus outbreak, is almost certain to extend its stay-at-home mandate until August, .County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer told the Board of Supervisors Tuesday that the quarantine order will "with all certainty" be in effect through the next two and a half months."Our hope is that by using the data, we’d be able to slowly lift restrictions over the next three months," she said at the supervisors meeting. Only a "dramatic change to the virus and tools at hand" would...

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