California Shuts down restaurants, wineries, movie theatres, family entertainment, Zoos, museums, Cardrooms Bars and other business operations due to rampant spread of Coronavirus.
California Shuts Down Businesses
California shut down: Following a hike, in coronavirus infections, California governor Gavin Newsom ordered to close down all business sectors, gyms and churches in California. The governor twitted “NEW: #COVID19 cases continue to spread at alarming rates. CA is now closing indoor operations STATEWIDE for: -Restaurants -Wineries -Movie theatres, family entertainment -Zoos, museums -Cardrooms Bars must close ALL operations.”
Before this, lockdowns were announced in all over the UK due to a sheer number of positive cases. The health department in LA had shut down a clothing factory in this weekend after 300 of its employees tested positive for coronavirus. Leicester remains in lockdown after a spike in cases in the city while a farm in Herefordshire was closed following an outbreak of 73 cases new infections.
After the initial lockdown was lifted in California around Memorial Day, many Californians rushed out to make up for three long months of quarantine. However, due to a steady spike in coronavirus cases, Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the state back on lockdown. Mr Newsom said: “It’s incumbent on all of us to recognize, soberly, that COVID-19 is not going away anytime soon.”
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California on Monday banned all key business sectors including restaurants, movie theatres, museums and bars. Hair salons and gyms in particularly hard-hit counties were also told to close. All public activities including indoor dining, praying in church and going to the gym are to withhold. Things are more strict in the 30 counties that have been on the governor’s COVID-19 watch list for three consecutive days, which includes all of Southern California.
This measure has been taken in order to flatten the new curve that has reached its peak during the last month. “We’ve made this point on multiple occasions and that is why we’re moving back into a modification mode of our original stay-at-home order,” Newsom said. California’s two largest school districts- Los Angeles and San Diego decide to conduct only online classes for the next academic session.
Other states may soon follow.
The Sun Belt has been hit especially hard, but infection rates in other parts of the country — including Colorado, Kentucky, Montana, North Dakota and the District of Columbia — have also risen sharply over the past week. The entire country reported 57,000 new infections on Monday for a total of 3,348,000 cases, with at least 132,000 deaths linked to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. LA can face a second mandatory stay-at-home order if coronavirus cases and hospitalization continue to rise, according to Mayor Eric Garcetti.
California Governor Gavin Newsom shares his preparedness plans as positivity rates and hospitalization rates increase in California. He mentions that when the Nation’s first stay-at-home order was launched, its objectives were to save lives and to better prepare the healthcare delivery system. This includes utilizing existing hospital capacities and building new alternative Federal Medical Stations. As of now, California has 416 hospitals as the Governor reveals, but assets are quite distinctive depending upon which city one lives in. Newsom said that over the course of last few months the administration has been looking for a strategic, more specific and mindful way of distributing capacities – from testing, tracing and tracking, to addressing acute care to meet the needs of communities in the state.
