The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reported Thursday that 38 employees have tested positive for COVID-19, along with 13 jail inmates.
According to statistics released Thursday morning, 458 employees have been quarantined, and 294 have returned to work.
In the jail system, 943 inmates have been quarantined and 42 have been isolated.
According to the sheriff’s department, “isolation” is defined as being for “individuals who have a temperature of 100.4 or higher and are exhibiting symptoms of an upper respiratory infection,” while “quarantine” is for “individuals who have had close contact of 10 minutes or more with a person currently under observation.”
More information is available on the sheriff’s department’s coronavirus updates page, lasd.org/covid19updates.