LASD Reports 206 Employees, 722 Inmates Have Tested Positive For COVID-19 Since Pandemic Began

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department reported Friday that 206 employees and 722 inmates have tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began.

According to numbers released Friday, 517 employees are currently quarantined and 1,174 have returned to work.

Of the employees who tested positive, 150   are sworn personnel and the remainder are professional or "civilian" personnel. Of those in quarantine, 373 are sworn personnel.

Meanwhile, 4,857 inmates are currently quarantined, and 313 have been isolated.

Of those in isolation, 237 have tested positive and the remainder have been tested and are awaiting results.

According to the sheriff's department, "individuals who have a temperature of 100.4 or higher and are exhibiting symptoms of an upper respiratory infection,'' have been in isolation while individuals in close contact with a person currently under observation have been quarantined.

More information is available at lasd.org/covid19updates.

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