Los Angeles County Again Breaks Single-Day Record for COVID Cases

A girl receives a self-administered COVID-19 test kit at a screening center at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Medical Center Campus in South Los Angeles, Calif., on December 27, 2021, as the Omicron variant continues to spread across the country. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles County set another daily record with 45,584 positive COVID-19 tests on Jan. 9, continuing a winter surge in transmission driven by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.

On Friday, health officials reported a then-record 43,712 new infections, and on Saturday they said the county had seen more than 200,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases over the past 7 days, the highest number in one week since the beginning of the pandemic.