Availability of two area intensive care unit beds fell to 12.9% on Tuesday, prompting California’s strict investment-home order for all counties in the area.
Six counties and one city – San Francisco, Sonoma, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marine, and Santa Clara counties and Berkeley – earlier this month, before diving below 15% of the state, went too far with restrictions on their own shelters. Threshold for ICU bed capacity.
Now, holdout counties like San Mateo, Napa, Santa Cruz and Solano will have to join in shutting down some activities, including outdoor dining; Indoor playground and recreation facilities; Hair salons and barbershops; Museums, zoos and aquariums; Movie theaters; Amusement park; With bars and wineries.
The restrictive measures will take effect at 11:59 pm on Thursday, according to state guidelines.
California’s statewide ICU capacity fell to 1.1% on Tuesday, with five designated areas below the threshold.
The San Joaquin Valley area was at 0% ICU capacity, Southern California was 0.5%, Sacramento was 14.1%, and Northern California – the only area that did not fall under the state’s mandatory stay-at-home order – was 29.1. % Capacity.
About 98 million people in the state, 98% of them are now under the ban of the regional order.
“Solano County is experiencing high levels of COVID-19 transmission at an alarming rate, and our hospital admissions are both indicators that ICU effects are now being addressed, not just locally but regionally.” Matthias, Sotno County Public Health Officer, said in a statement on Wednesday.
In addition to forcing many businesses to close temporarily, all retail operations and shopping centers under state-of-the-home orders are limited to 20 percent capacity with no access to food and drink in stores.
Rest Restaurants Rents are only allowed to open for take-out or delivery. Critical fees need to allow remote work, excluding only possible structural areas.
Schools that have already reopened for individual classes will remain open.
The order prohibits private gatherings of any size except external church services and political demonstrations.
It remains in effect for at least three weeks, after which time if the area’s projected ICU capacity exceeds 15% or it can be withdrawn.
As of Wednesday, there were 1,331 ICU beds available across the state – down 135 from the previous day. The number of hospitalized patients in COVID-19 in California has increased to 15,886, an increase of 4..3% of 688 patients.
New counties, hospitalizations and record-breaking deaths have been reported in some counties.
A total of 1,010 new cases were reported Wednesday in Contra Costa County. On Tuesday, San Francisco rose from 203 to 335 new cases. There are 455 confirmed cases reported in San Mateo County.
Santa Cruz County also reported 144 new cases on Tuesday, with only four staff and available ICU beds, according to the government’s latest data.
Santa Cruz County Health Officer Dr. “Thanks to the increase in Thanksgiving, our case count is high and our hospital and healthcare delivery system is at a breaking point,” Gail Newell said in a statement.
More than 200,000 residents of the two areas are now being infected with the epidemic since the epidemic began, with the first batch of vaccines starting to turn into front-line health care workers, just like the data shown by the Chronicle.
There were a total of 200,518 cases as of Wednesday morning, and 1,156 residents of the two areas have lost their lives to the virus.
Another 295 seaweed-19 deaths were reported in California on Tuesday, the latest in a string of tragic records as the state and nation are gripped by the epidemic. The state has averaged 163 deaths in a single day in the last week, compared to 41 deaths in a single day a month ago.
The death toll in Covid-1 has risen so fast that the state has ordered an additional 2,000 body bags to cope with hospitals, Governor Gavin News reported on Tuesday.
“It’s a lot to think about,” News said during a news conference in Sacramento County. “It’s not the flu. There is nothing wrong with that. This is a deadly disease. ”
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In Dean Waziri and Erin Day fights are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. Email: [email protected] and [email protected]
