Los Angeles Coronavirus Update: Dodger Stadium Testing Site Mysteriously Closed As Positivity Rate Jumps To Near 10 Percent - Deadline

Los Angeles County Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer reported 1,584 new coronavirus cases on Monday.

Over the weekend, L.A.’s largest COVID testing site seems to have closed down with no explanation.

When asked about the closure of the Dodger Stadium site a county official said, “It would be best to address those questions to the city.”.

“Dodger Stadium is closed right now,” said an MSNBC.

“When we called the City of Los Angeles, they said that this had something to do with staffing levels…However, now we’re hearing that this may have something to do with funding at the county level and reimbursements.”.

WATCH: COVID-19 testing site at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles closed despite a spike in virus cases.

It’s been a constant stream of people hoping to get COVID-19 testing at Dodger stadium and having to turn back.

The official Los Angeles City COVID test appointment site makes no mention of the closure.

Meanwhile, there appear to be only 3 covid test time slots available in the entire city.

On June 24, Garcetti said the city was surging its testing capacity.

The mayor said he is ordering the city to “scale up testing to meet the demand,” going from 7,700 tests a day last week to 13,600 tests.

That means there hav been 3,534 total fatalities from COVID-19 in Los Angeles County