Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has examined optimistic for COVID-19 and can stay in isolation and comply with public well being pointers, her workplace introduced Friday.
Zach Seidl, a spokesman for Bass, informed Metropolis Information Service the mayor examined optimistic Thursday.
“Mayor Bass simply introduced for the primary time in years that homelessness in L.A. Metropolis has decreased and avenue homelessness has dropped 10%, which is the biggest drop in at the least 9 years. She is doing positive,” Seidl mentioned in an electronic mail.
Bass just lately returned from the four-day United States Convention of Mayors assembly in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri.
Bass, who was anticipated to attend a information convention Friday morning in-person for the discharge of the 2024 Larger Los Angeles Homeless Depend, as an alternative participated remotely.
The mayor, who serves because the chair of Metro’s Board of Administrators, additionally joined its Thursday assembly through Zoom.
The mayor beforehand caught COVID-19 in June 2023. Bass’ workplace famous on the time that she was vaccinated and boosted.