Peninsula 360 Press [P360P]. Bay City News [BCN].
A new home confinement 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 at noon on Tuesday.
The six jurisdictions announced Friday the regional order to require most nonessential businesses to close all indoor and outdoor operations.
Temporary closures include outdoor restaurants, playgrounds, beauticians, museums, zoos, movie theaters, and wineries, breweries and bars.
Stores and shopping malls will be allowed indoor operations with 20 percent capacity and no eating or drinking in the stores.
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 reached the California and San Joaquin Valley regions.
Health officials from the six jurisdictions decided to comply with what was established by the state government, even though ICU availability in the Bay Area did not exceed the 15 percent availability barrier; as of this Sunday, there was a remaining 24.1 percent of intensive care unit occupancy.
So far, the order does not cover other counties in the region.
The restrictions will remain in effect until at least January 4.
