With the L.A. County Department of Public Health declaring four cases of COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) in Beverly Hills this week (11 in West Hollywood, including the Mayor, John D’Amico), the pandemic is closer to home than ever before. At over 237,000 COVID-19 cases worldwide as of March 19, including over 230 reported cases in L.A. County, and over 9,800 dead from the virus, governments around the globe are taking increasingly stringent actions to curb the disease from continuing to spread.
On March 16, the Beverly Hills City Council declared a local emergency in response to COVID-19 at the start of a televised eight-hour-long Emergency Public Session meeting.
