
Coronavirus spread down in Long Beach, health officials report
Long Beach’s coronavirus transmission metrics have been steadily trending down since the holiday season, including over over the past two weeks, according to the city health department’s most-recent data.
The health department reported 603 new coronavirus cases over the past week, according to data posted to the city’s COVID-19 dashboard on Friday, Jan. 27, bringing the total number of cases since the pandemic began to 160,814. The latest data is through Thursday, but the city posted that infor