Mayor Karen Bass tests positive for COVID-19, feels 'fine'

Julia Wick
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LOS ANGELES-CA-MAY 26, 2023: Mayor Karen Bass signs the city budget at City Hall in downtown Los Angeles on Friday, May 26, 2023, which includes an unprecedented $1.3 billion investment to address the homelessness crisis, including $250 million for Inside Safe- the new citywide program to bring unhoused Angelenos inside and end street encampments. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass tested positive for COVID-19 Wednesday evening, her office said Thursday.

Bass is "is feeling fine and will continue to work remotely as she follows public health guidelines," according to a statement from her press office.

The mayor is vaccinated and boosted and has not previously tested positive for COVID-19, according to her office.

Bass had previously been set to attend a number of events Thursday, including a press lunch for the city's annual Lotus Festival and a scholarship dinner for LiUNA Local 300, a union representing construction laborers, maintenance workers and plant workers.

Bass spent last weekend in Columbus, Ohio, attending the U.S. Conference of Mayors, where she was named chair of the conference's task force on homelessness.

Concidentally, fully vaccinated former L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti also tested positive for the coronavirus in November 2021 while attending a United Nations conference on climate change in Glasgow, Scotland. He had to extend his stay and isolate in a Glasgow hotel room for several days before returning to the United States.

This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.