Thursday, January 23, 2025

COVID-19: Confinement begins in California

Pen sula 360 Press [P360P]. Bay City News [BCN].

A new stay-at-home order went into effect in Bay Area counties Sunday night and Monday morning to try to limit the spread of COVID-19.

The order went into effect at 10 p.m. 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 a regional order Friday requiring most nonessential businesses to close all indoor and outdoor operations.

Temporary closures include outdoor dining, playgrounds, spas, museums, zoos, movie theaters, and wineries, breweries and bars.

Stores and malls will be allowed indoor operations with 20 percent capacity and no eating or drinking in stores.

A state order announced Thursday would lift such restrictions if a specific California region hit the 15 percent threshold for intensive care unit availability, a number