LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Gavin Newsom’s home stay order for Southern California is due to expire today, but with the capacity of a regional intensive care unit officially estimated to be zero, he said the order will certainly be extended.
“We are likely, I think, that it is very self-evident that we need to extend these regional deadlines,” Newsom said. “… Based on all the data and based on all these lines of movement, it is very likely based on these current trends that we need to extend the stay at home order, (which you recall was is a three-week order when we have announced it. ”
The stay-at-home order for Southern California’s 11-county district came into effect at 11:59 pm Dec. 6, and was scheduled to expire on Dec. 28.
The Southern California region covers the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, Imperial, Inyo, Mono, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura. In general, the order prohibits gatherings of people from different families.
The order forced the closure of the following businesses / leisure facilities:
– indoor leisure facilities;
– hair shops and workshops;
– personal care services;
– museums, zoos, and aquariums;
– film theaters;
– winters;
– bars, breweries and distilleries;
– family entertainment venues;
– card and satellite rooms;
– limited services;
– live audience sport; and
– sports grounds.
Schools with a disposal can remain open, along with “emergency infrastructure” and retail stores, which will be limited to 20% capacity. Restaurants are limited to a pick-up and delivery service only. Hotels are allowed to open “for emergency infrastructure support only,” while churches would be restricted to outdoor services only. Entertainment production – including professional sports – would be allowed to continue without a live audience.
Four of the five states sculpted by the state are under stay-at-home orders, covering 98% of the state’s population. Only far north of California is not home-ordered.
The order was triggered in all districts when the area’s ICU bed rate fell below 15%. In some counties, the official ICU bed is 0%. That percentage does not mean that ICU beds are not available, as the state varies the number according to the ratio of COVID-19 patients living in the units.
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