Indoor businesses in LA County to close immediately, bars to close all operations statewide.
On Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom ordered additional L.A. County closures and a number of statewide closures as positive COVID-19 cases continue to soar. While bars, indoor restaurants, wineries, theatres, museums and family entertainment centers have already been closed by Newsom in L.A. County for three weeks, the same will now apply to the whole of California for at least three consecutive days.
Malls, fitness centers and personal care businesses are among additional closures in counties on the monitoring list (which includes LA, Orange and Ventura County) for at least three consecutive days.
Effective immediately, CA is closing some indoor business operations statewide and additional indoor business operations in counties on @CAPublicHealth Monitoring List for 3 consecutive days.
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— Office of the Governor of California (@CAgovernor) July 13, 2020
“As a consequence in increase of positivity rate, an increase in hospitalizations and ICUs… today we are announcing additional statewide actions as it relates to our stay-at-home order,” Newsom said.
Find the full list of closures below.
County closures for counties on the monitoring list:
The following industries must close indoor operations, but they may be modified to operate outside or by pick-up:
- Dine-in restaurants
- Wineries and tasting rooms
- Movie theaters
- Family entertainment centers (for example: bowling alleys, miniature golf, batting cages and arcades)
- Zoos and museums
- Cardrooms
- Hair salons and barbershops
- Gyms and fitness centers
- Personal care services, like nail salons, body waxing and tattoo parlors
- Places of worship
- Offices for non-essential sectors
- Malls
Statewide closures:
- Dine-in restaurants (outdoors only)
- Wineries and tasting rooms (outdoors only)
- Family entertainment centers (outdoors only)
- Zoos and museums (outdoors only)
- Cardrooms (outdoors only)
- Hair salons and barbershops
- Casinos
- Gyms and fitness centers
- Hotels (for tourism and individual travel)
- Campgrounds and outdoor recreation
- Personal care services, like nail salons, body waxing and tattoo parlors
The news comes as LA reaches a total of 133,549 positive COVID-19 cases and 3,809 deaths. Although the death rate has dropped by 20%, hospitalizations have jumped 24% over the last 7 days.
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