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Reporting backlog continues to affect L. A. County COVID-19 case numbers

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Los Angeles County public health officials on Sunday reported 1,192 new cases of the coronavirus and nine related deaths but said both numbers were artificially low due to a weekend reporting lag.
Los Angeles County public health officials on Sunday reported 1,192 new cases of COVID-19 and nine related deaths but said both numbers were artificially low due to a weekend reporting lag. L. A. County has reported totals of more than 222,000 cases and more than 5,240 deaths. The latest case numbers did not include a pending backlog of lab reports the county has been expecting the state to send via its electronic reporting system for more than a week. The backlog was generated by a series of data failures that led to hundreds of thousands of test results not being uploaded into the system. It’s unclear how many of the unreported results were from L.

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