BREAKING NEWS: New Stay-At-Home Order
BREAKING NEWS: New Stay-At-Home Order
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BREAKING NEWS: Gov. Gavin Newsom announced today new plans to initiate a new stay-at-home order in an effort to curb the rampant spread of COVID-19 in California. New stay-at-home order will be more restrictive than the existing four-tier color-coded system for reopenings as it is based statewide.
The state is being broken into five regions:
• Northern California
• Greater Sacramento
• Bay Area
• San Joaquin Valley
• Southern California
When the region’s ICU hospital capacity falls below 15% capacity, the new stay-at-home order is immediately enforced for a period of at least three weeks.
When will stay-at-home order start?
Not yet; however California Department of Public Health (CDPH) forecasts that all regions except the Bay Area will hit that peak in the next few days. The Bay Area is currently projected around mid-month, due to increased hospitalization, which means reduced availability for ICU beds capacity (less than 15%). This new stay-at-home order will last for at least three weeks.
How will stay-at-home order impact us? More businesses will have to close and enter a stay-at-home order similar to the one we had in March (with a few key exceptions). Here are examples:
• Bars, wineries, nail salons, hair salons and barbershops, and other personal care services will need to close.
• Schools that have received a waiver to reopen can stay open, as can all “critical infrastructure.”
• Restaurants can stay open for takeout and delivery, but they have to shut down both indoor and outdoor dining.
• All retail stores are allowed to stay open at 20% capacity.
• You can still go out to do grocery shopping, pick up medications, pick up takeouts, or other essential activities (i.e. take car to auto body shop).
• Curfew (10 PM to 5 AM) is still in place.
• People are encouraged to go out for walks and exercise outdoors, with masks on at all times.
• Private gatherings of any size will be temporarily prohibited, at all times. Stop gathering with different household members. If you have to meet them, meet outdoors only, social distance and wear masks.
• All non-essential travel (tourism, recreational activities) is temporarily restricted statewide. Hotels and motels are now restricted to only guests traveling for an “essential” reason. All persons who arrive in California or return from out-of-state travel are expected to self-quarantine for 14 days.
For more information on which region your county is in and other details, read links in the transcript. We will share more news updates as they come in. Wash hands. Mask on. Social distance. Stay safe.
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Upcoming state stay-at-home order for five regions:
• Northern California: Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama, Trinity
• Bay Area: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma
• Greater Sacramento: Alpine, Amador, Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, Sierra, Sutter, Yolo, Yuba
• San Joaquin Valley: Calaveras, Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, San Benito, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tulare, Tuolumne
• Southern California: Imperial, Inyo, Los Angeles, Mono, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura
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