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Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Thursday that California will face a limited stay-at-home order on specific regions of the state caring about Covid-19 cases which putting a strain on their health care system.
There will be three-week stay-at-home order if the remaining capacity in a divided five region falls below 15%. The state going to be divided into the Bay Area, Greater Sacramento, Northern California, San Joaquin Valley, and Southern California.
All bars, wineries, personal services, hair salons, and barbershops to temporarily close during the order. Those schools would be allowed to remain open who meet proper health structure and infrastructure. Retail stores could operate at 20% capacity and restaurants would be allowed to offer take-out and delivery too.
Till now, none of the regions have triggered the stay-at-home order, but there is a certain probability that every part of the state is expected to reach the remaining health capacity below 15% in December. Newsom also added that he sees four of the five regions to have less than 15% ICU capacity in the next day or two. The Bay Area may reach that milestone by mid-to-late December.
“The bottom line is if we don’t act now, our hospital system will be overwhelmed. If we don’t act now, we’ll continue to see a death rate climb, more lives lost,” Newsom told this to press.
On Wednesday, roughly 8,208 people were hospitalized with Covid-19 in California, based on a weekly average. This figure marks a more than 35% increase compared with a week ago.
After the governor’s announcement, San Francisco Mayor London Breed tweeted, “We are right now in the most dangerous time of this pandemic for our state and our region.”
Breed told that cases and hospitalizations are surging. Unless they get things under control immediately, they could quickly run out of hospital beds in the Bay Area.
“This is not a permanent state. This is what many had projected,” Newsom told, he also added that this will be the pandemics “final surge” as vaccines move closer to authorization.
He ended by saying that there’s light at the end of the tunnel.
