Los Angeles and San Francisco are reopening for more business under California’s least restrictive coronavirus safety rules, even though these counties have more infections than many others.
State data shows nearby Orange and San Bernardino counties have similarly low coronavirus case and positivity rates to Los Angeles but can’t reopen further because they aren’t conducting as much testing.
It wasn’t immediately clear why some counties were conducting so much more coronavirus testing and others, much less. But those that do are rewarded under the state’s color-coded tier system by being allowed to expand business activity.
