Stay at home order7/6/2023 The order would prohibit nonessential travel. Specifically, it allows hotel and lodging for essential reasons only, defined as supporting “ critical infrastructure sectors,”, including workers in healthcare, food, agriculture, energy, utilities, transportation, communications, government operations, manufacturing, financial services and the entertainment industry. The new regional stay-at-home order, when effective, again prohibits hotel use for tourism, leisure and other nonessential reasons, like nonessential travel, whether it be a vacation or a road trip to see family or friends. Travel and use of hotels and lodging for tourism and leisure prohibitedĪfter the first statewide stay-at-home order imposed in the spring, California allowed counties to reopen hotels for tourism and individual travel in June. Special hours should be imposed for seniors or those with compromised immune systems. Eating and drinking in stores would be prohibited. Shopping centers would also be capped at 20% of capacity.Essential retail capacity would fall from 25% to 20%. When the county falls into the scope of the new order, the local, tougher limit for nonessential retail (10%) will be loosened to conform with the state’s limit, 20%. Santa Clara County: Santa Clara County also had already tightened capacity limits.Essential retail capacity would fall from 35% of capacity to 20%. County falls into the scope of the new order, nonessential retail capacity limits would remain the same at 20%. County on Monday already had tightened capacity limits at retail. The new order would lower capacity of all retail to 20%. Most of California: In much of the state, essential retail, like supermarkets and drug stores, were allowed to open at 50% of capacity non-essential retail, like other stores and malls, opened at 25% capacity.Counties can impose tougher rules than the state’s. This is a major difference - all retail would be allowed to remain open under this stay-at-home order, although at a reduced capacity. Retail would stay open, but with more limited capacity The percentages change daily as intensive care units admit and release patients, according to the agency. Here’s the current available ICU capacity by region, based on actual numbers, according to the California Department of Public Health, as of Friday night. Projections: On Friday night, two regions - Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley crossed the threshold, which, if it continues on Saturday, would cause the stay-at-home order to be implemented in those regions by Sunday. What are the regions? There are five: Southern California, the San Joaquin Valley, the Bay Area, the Greater Sacramento area and rural Northern California. How soon: The earliest any region could see closures would be Sunday. On Friday, five counties in the Bay Area - San Francisco, Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa and Marin - said they planned to implement the order early next week, without waiting for the region to hit the state’s threshold. When: The order would go into effect 24 hours after a region hits the ICU capacity threshold.
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