LA Residents To Be Required To Wear Masks When Visiting Essential Businesses: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced an order Tuesday evening requiring all residents to wear a face covering when visiting the majority of essential businesses, in hopes that it will protect workers and slow the spread of the coronavirus. Effective Friday, residents must wear a mask, bandanna or other type of covering over their noses and mouths when in grocery stores, pharmacies, hardware stores, coin-operated laundry services, restaurants, hotels, taxis, ride-hail vehicles and several other essential businesses. California's most populous county has become the state's focal point in the past two weeks. Deaths and infections are climbing there at a faster clip than in the San Francisco Bay Area, the state's initial epicenter. Read more from Emily Alpert Reyes, Sarah Parvini and Jaclyn Cosgrove of the Los Angeles Times; David Douglas and Dennis Romero of NBC News; and Alexander Nieves of Politico.
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