Los Angeles will never be able to fully re-open amidst the pandemic until there is a cure for coronavirus, Mayor Eric Garcetti has warned.

In an interview with Good Morning America on Wednesday, Mr Garcetti said that the county is “learning to live” with the disease rather than “moving beyond” it.

“We’ve never been fully closed, we’ll never be completely open until we have a cure,” the mayor said.

Yesterday the county’s health director announced that stay-at-home efforts could possibly be extended for another three months.

Mr Garcetti confirmed that residents shouldn’t expect health orders on facemasks, social distancing and working from home to “disappear in a matter of weeks or even a few months.”

‘It’s important not to overreact but it’s important to take this serious because it’s as dangerous today as it was the first day it arrived in our cities and our country,” he said.

The mayor discussed how measures could possibly begin to be relaxed throughout the county in the upcoming months, but admitted that life will look very different for residents for the foreseeable future.

“I hope for our K through 12 schools we will have some sense of opening but it won’t be in the way we’ve known schools in the past,” he said.

“It might be fewer days a week, it might be staggered because we have to maintain that physical distance and we have to make sure for our vulnerable children some of them won’t be able to go back to school for some time.”

Over the weekend, California allowed some retailers to offer curbside and delivery options, and the county allowed parks, hiking trails and golf courses to reopen with physical distancing and mask requirements.

LA residents are becoming increasingly frustrated by the measures which have been implemented to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.

At least 100 anti-lockdown protesters gathered outside Mr Garcetti’s residence on Saturday, demanding an end to stay-at-home orders, according to The Los Angeles Times.

However, Mr Garcetti continues to insist that maintaining strict measures is the best way to protect citizens.

“We have to tell the hard truths and protect our people”, he told Good Morning America.

Los Angeles County remains the primary Covid-19 hot spot in California, with deaths its coronavirus fatalities accounting for roughly half of the state’s death toll.

The county has more than 32,000 recorded cases of Covid-19, including at least 1,569 deaths, as of 11 May.