Seven California counties, including San Francisco, reopening later – deadline

Seven California counties, including San Francisco, reopening later – deadline

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San Francisco’s cinemas can now be reopened.

As predicted by Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday, seven additional California counties were confirmed on Tuesday to enter the red level of their reopening plan. This was confirmed by the official state panel – see the map below for a quick, color-coded reference. These counties had a total population of more than 3 million people, the most populous being San Francisco and Santa Clara.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed made the announcement Tuesday morning, saying in a statement: “As of today, March 2, San Francisco has met the criteria based on its COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and other health metrics, to move towards less restrictive red level in the State Project for a Safer Economy. “

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In addition to the Bay Area county, the list includes El Dorado, Lassen, Modoc, San Luis Obispo and Napa, where Governor Newsom’s Plumpjack winery is located.

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The move to the red layer means that cinemas can reopen for in-house operations at 25% capacity or a total of 100 people, whichever is less. Restaurants can reopen indoors, subject to the same restrictions. Retail stores, shopping centers, zoos and museums can operate at 50% capacity. Hotels may reopen with modifications. Gyms can reopen indoors with very limited capacity. Amusement parks must remain closed until counties reach the least stringent, or yellow, level.

The changes take effect on Wednesday, according to the California Department of Public Health.

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Governor Newsom also indicated that the state will preview next week’s move on Tuesday, saying it expects “even more momentum”.

“We expect that the majority of Californians in the coming weeks will reside in counties outside of the more restrictive purple belt,” he revealed.

Eleven sparsely populated counties are already at less rigid levels, including Alpine, Del Norte, Humboldt, Marin, Mariposa, Plumas, San Mateo, Shasta, Sierra, Trinity and Yolo. Sierra and Alpine are even further ahead than the others in the orange layer.

According to state data released on Tuesday, there are another 11 of the state’s 58 counties ready to move to less restrictive levels the following week. They are Alameda, Alpine, Butte, Calaveras, Imperial, Mariposa, Mono, Placer, Plumas, Santa Crux, Solano and Tuolumne.

The reopens come, of course, amid growing dissatisfaction with the way Newsom is dealing with the pandemic, which crystallized in a recall campaign against him. Last week, the governor pushed hard to reopen schools, announcing an agreement with the state legislature on Monday that has yet to be ratified.

When a county’s numbers reach the levels required for a level, they must remain at that level for 3 consecutive weeks before reopenings can begin. Thus, it is not announced that a county will be in the red layer until its data remains constant – or falls – for almost a month.

This means that Los Angeles and Orange Counties, which are out of the red level, may reach below the limit next week, but must remain there for another two weeks before the purple level restrictions are lifted. If and when that happens, about half of the state’s 40 million inhabitants will have progressed out of the purple layer.

See Newsom’s tweet below for a chart that indicates how the different layers are measured.

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