The loosened public health guidelines come amid surging coronavirus infection rates and hospitalizations and as some churches continue to defy public health orders. Advertisement“Los Angeles County is experiencing an unprecedented surge of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and premature deaths,” county officials said in a statement. He barred the state, L.A. County and several other counties and cities from enforcing any prohibition on indoor religious services. Ventura County officials in August sued Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Thousand Oaks after it continued to meet indoors. In August, the county sued Grace Community Church in Sun Valley for its open defiance of the public health order.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 22, 2020 03:11 UTC