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Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. AFP
SAN FRANCISCO – An increase in coronavirus cases will put San Francisco under a curfew starting Monday and trigger other restrictions related to the virus, the city announced.
The curfew requires the closure of non-essential businesses and prohibits members of different households from meeting between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. until December 21, Mayor London Breed said Saturday.
San Mateo County outside of San Francisco will also be subject to the same rules after the state of California ranked both at its most restrictive level of locations based on the spread of the virus.
In addition to the curfew, certain indoor businesses will be required to close or reduce capacity starting at noon Sunday, Breed said.
“I don’t know how to be clearer: this is the most dangerous moment we have faced during this pandemic,” Breed said on Twitter.
Don’t travel or meet others. We have to get this under control now and we cannot allow ourselves to continue at this rate. “
On Friday, a temporary ban on gatherings of people from different households, with religious services and protests exempted, was announced for California’s largest city, Los Angeles.
That order affecting the second-largest city in the United States will go into effect Monday and last for at least three weeks, until Dec. 20, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said.
California imposed a nighttime curfew on much of the state a week ago, but San Francisco was unaffected because at the time it was not ranked among the most restrictive places in the state.
The United States surpassed 13 million cases of Covid-19 on Friday, the highest in the world, and President-elect Joe Biden has warned that difficult weeks are ahead before vaccines are widely available.
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