The new restrictions will last through the upcoming holidays.
SECOND LOCKDOWN LOS ANGELES MOVIE
“It’s not what we expected at this time of year, but we know some of them are required to make sure we get through the surge as quickly as possible and in saving as many lives and in preventing as many infections as we possibly can.”Ī movie theater in Encinitas, California. “We know that these various restrictions are a hardship for people,” Ghaly, California’s secretary of health and human services, said on Monday. “So I don’t understand why it’s not enough, and I’m terribly sad and afraid.”
We do everything we are told to do so everyone feels safe, including our staff and team,” she told KGO-TV. Michelle Saunders James was in tears on Friday at the thought of closing down her Oakland nail salon just five weeks after reopening. The new shutdowns were a gut-wrenching move for small businesses. The Bay Area order will last at least through 4 January, a week longer than the state timeline. “Our biggest fear all along – that we won’t have a bed for you or your mother or your grandmother or grandfather when they get sick – is the reality we’ll be facing unless we slow the spread,” said London Breed, San Francisco’s mayor. But health officers in five of the Bay Area’s 11 counties adopted the state stay-at-home order for San Francisco, Santa Clara, Marin, Alameda and Contra Costa counties, as well as the city of Berkeley, which has its own public health department, saying they could not afford to wait. The other three regions – Greater Sacramento, northern California and San Francisco Bay area – ranged between 20% to 28% in capacity. Please follow our advice to keep yourself, your family and your neighbors safe.” We can only get through this if we work together. “This is an alarming situation that could get much worse. “Our only hospital in San Benito county is completely full,” said Dr David Ghilarducci, the San Benito county public health officer. The surge in cases has overrun the hospital capacities of more rural regions in particular, such as San Benito county, which is included in the San Joaquin Valley region and is under lockdown. “I can’t emphasise this enough – everyone must take personal steps to protect themselves and protect others.” “Surging cases and hospitalizations are not letting up,” said Dr Salvador Sandoval, the public health officer for the city of Merced.
Together the two regions are home to more than half of California’s 40 million population.
The figure was at 6.3% for the San Joaquin Valley, a dozen counties in the Central Valley and rural areas of the Sierra Nevada. The 11-county southern California region, which includes Los Angeles and San Diego, had only 10.9% of ICU beds available, the state reported on Monday.
Hospitalizations have topped 10,000 in a 72% increase over the past 14 days, with more than 2,300 patients in ICU care. Photograph: Mike Blake/ReutersĪcross the US, 101,487 people were being treated in hospital with Covid-19 on Sunday, according to the Covid Tracking Project, and an additional 1,138 deaths were recorded.Ĭalifornia has recorded more than 1.3m cases, setting a new daily record on Sunday with 30,075. A sign in Oceanside, California, warns against gathering as the new stay-at-home orders take effect.
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