Grocery stores can operate at 35% capacity, according to revised guidance, and should have special hours for seniors and others with chronic health conditions or compromised immune systems. Retail stores and shopping centers can stay open at 20% capacity. Signal Staff Writer Tammy Murga contributed to this report.Stay-at-home order: With COVID-19 numbers up, Ventura County health official says action needed
Masks, physical distancing and limiting activities are still key to getting out of this pandemic until we can get everybody vaccinated - we are not in the clear.” Solis echoed these sentiments, adding, “Please don’t take this news to mean that you can return to life of normalcy. “We’re seeing a flattening of the curve … but we are not out of the woods.” “We are anticipating still more declines in hospitalizations and more declines in ICU use, and that’s why we’re lifting that stay-at-home order effective immediately today,” Newsom said. While these are positive signs that California is slowing the spread of the virus, state Public Health officials want to remind residents that it’s still critical to continue wearing masks, maintaining physical distance of at least 6 feet, washing hands frequently, avoiding gatherings and mixing with other households, as well as following all state and local health department guidance and getting the vaccine when it’s their turn. “Seven weeks ago, our hospitals and frontline medical workers were stretched to their limits, but Californians heard the urgent message to stay home when possible, and our surge after the December holidays did not overwhelm the health care system to the degree we had feared.” Mark Ghaly said in a prepared statement Monday. “California is slowly starting to emerge from the most dangerous surge of this pandemic yet, which is the light at the end of the tunnel we’ve been hoping for,” California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr.
I’m glad that the stay-at-home order has been lifted, and I will be getting a mani-pedi this weekend, but the public has a right to know what data the governor is using to make these decisions.” I, like so many of my colleagues, have had to learn about major decisions, like the lifting of this order, via Twitter. Having said that, the lack of transparency, the seemingly arbitrary decisions based on secretive data and the lack of collaboration with the legislative branch have been frustrating to say the least. How are small-business owners and their employees supposed to plan? How can anyone be sure the governor will not shut us down again tomorrow?”Īssemblywoman Suzette Valladares, R-Santa Clarita, agreed, adding, “Small businesses, restaurants, nail salons and barbershops are all desperate to open their doors, earn a living and serve our community, so today is a good day, and I encourage each and every one of us to support our local businesses. Are they really too complicated, or are they just driven by politics? Who knows? One day, everything is closed and we are in crisis. Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, took issue with in a statement released Monday: “While this is great news for businesses and their employees up and down California, it begs the question, why now? The administration’s data metrics are secret, they are ‘too complicated’ for anyone to understand. The data points that go into the projection were expected to be available on the state Public Health website Monday. 21 is expected to return above the threshold to 33.3%, according to Gov. The four-week projection for ICU capacity for the SoCal region ending on Feb. The ICU capacity in these regions fell below 15% in early December, remaining below the threshold since, with the SoCal region’s ICU capacity still reported to be at 0.0% as of Monday. County is a part, as the four-week intensive care unit capacity projections for these regions returned above the 15% threshold. The news first broke in a letter sent to restaurant owners Sunday evening by the California Restaurant Association, which said they’d been informed by senior officials in Newsom’s administration that the governor would lift the order in all regions of the state Monday.Ī statement released by state Public Health officials Monday morning announced the order would be lifted for the three regions still under it, including the Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California region, of which L.A.
County, along with the majority of the state’s counties, would remain in the strictest, purple tier, which would allow restaurants to resume in-person dining outdoors only, along with allowing the reopening of personal care services, including hair and nail salons, indoors with modifications, as well as allowing outdoor operations to resume for gyms, wineries, family entertainment centers and cardrooms, among others, and increasing capacity at certain retail sectors. SCV Signal News Podcast with Aron Bender.
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