LAPD Jail To Temporarily Close For Deep Cleaning After Positive COVID-19 Test

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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) -- A Los Angeles jail will close temporarily for a deep cleaning after an individual tested positive for coronavirus, authorities said.

White lights flash from inside the Metropolitan Detention Center where ICE (U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement) detainees are held, as protestors (out of frame) rally outside the building during a 'Families Belong Together March' against the separation of children of immigrants from their parents, in downtown Los Angeles, California on June 14, 2018. - Rallies are taking place in 46 cities nationwide to register opposition to new family separation policies. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

The location was identified as LAPD's Metropolitan Detention Center.

People who have been arrested will be transported to either Van Nuys Community Police Station or 77th Street Community Police Station to be booked until the facility reopens.

LAPD recently announced the department had two additional cases of coronavirus, bringing the total to 63.

It's unclear who inside the MDC tested positive.