Peninsula 360 Press [P360P]. Bay City News [BCN].
A new home confinement order went into effect in Bay Area counties on Sunday night and Monday morning to try to limit the spread of COVID-19.
The order went into effect at 10:00 p.m. on Sunday in Contra Costa, Santa Clara and San Francisco counties.
At 00:01 am in the city of Berkeley and the rest of Alameda County.
Marin County will go into lockdown Tuesday at noon.
The six jurisdictions announced on Friday the regional order to require most non-essential businesses to close all internal and external operations.
Temporary closures include outdoor restaurants, playgrounds, aesthetics, museums, zoos, cinemas, and wineries, breweries and bars.
Shops and malls will be allowed to operate indoors with a capacity of 20 percent and without eating or drinking in the shops.
A state order announced Thursday will add such restrictions if a specific region of California reached the 15 percent limit of availability in intensive care units, a number that has already been reached by California and the San Joaquin Valley regions.
Health officials from all six jurisdictions decided to comply with the state government's requirements, even though the availability of the ICU in the Bay Area did not exceed the 15 percent availability barrier; as of this Sunday, the remaining 24.1 percent of the ICU occupancy was accounted for.
So far, the order does not cover other counties in the region.
The restrictions will remain in force at least until January 4.
