Gavin Newsom, and into the next “red” tier on Sept. 8. • Indoor dining rooms at restaurants must close, although restaurants can offer delivery and takeout service.• Indoor gyms, dance and yoga studios must now operate outdoors only.• Movie theaters can no longer operate indoors.• Houses of worship can no longer hold in-person indoor services but can host in-person services outdoors.• Wedding ceremonies and funerals must occur outdoors only. “This regional approach by Governor Gavin Newsom to pandemic closures and hospitalizations is absolutely the right approach,” Garcia said on Twitter. Essential businesses like grocery stores to be open at 50% capacity; Libraries and non-essential retail, including indoor malls, bookstores, florists, jewelry stores, furnishing stores, sporting good stores, clothing and shoe stores to be open indoors with a 25% occupancy cap; Restaurants to be open for outdoor in-person dining; Massage therapy studios, piercing shops, hair salons, skin care services, nail salons and barber shops to be open indoors with modifications; and. California Governor Gavin Newsom announced new COVID-19 restrictions for the state. That may curb the local travel that some residents have undertaken in recent weeks to eat or shop in nearby cities or counties with fewer restrictions. The Orange County Health Care Agency on Friday reported 746 people who are currently hospitalized due to the coronavirus, a single-day high during the pandemic. Los Angeles, Orange and San Francisco counties shatter COVID-19 records as ICU space shrinks. San Francisco begins administering the COVID-19 vaccine to frontline healthcare workers, distributing a first batch of 12,675 doses to hospitals across the city. Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino and Imperial counties were already in the most restrictive purple tier, so there is no immediate change in those areas. And San Bernardino County had an 11.3% positivity rate, 46.1 new daily cases per 100,000 people and an adjusted rate of 23 new daily cases. Private outdoor gatherings with up to three households, with certain restrictions. Expand the accordion below to read the language from a specific county's order related to COVID-19 and hotels as an essential business. Parts of Chemung County, including Elmira, are in the midst of state-imposed orange zone restrictions Meanwhile, Cuomo announced Wednesday parts … December 8, 2020 County of Orange Prepares for First Allocation of COVID-19 VaccineCounty of Orange health officials were notified by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) on December 1, 2020 that the OC Health Care Agency (HCA) should make preparations to receive 25,350 doses of Pfizer-manufactured COVID-19 vaccine on December 15, 2020. As medical providers plead with their communities to help them control the coronavirus, some workers and business owners say they can’t afford to listen. Capacity in common areas and break rooms should be reduced. Youth sports, mall singing, parties alarm Ventura County health officials. Orange County reported 528 new cases of COVID-19 and two additional deaths Saturday, bringing the county’s totals to 64,586 cases and 1,524 fatalities. -- Three local regions are moving from the yellow 'protect' level of COVID-19 guidelines to the orange 'restrict' level. Newsom said that while he understands the hardship more restrictions will have on businesses and workers, the new order is necessary to manage the state’s hospital availability and save lives. $700,000 payout followed finding that LAPD whistleblower was wrongly ousted, records show. For the order to be lifted in a region, the area’s projected intensive care capacity must be at least 15%; after the initial three-week period, that data will be assessed weekly. Ask the lawyer, Biden to pick Buttigieg as transportation chief, Biden, Harris to take oaths outside Capitol amid virus restrictions, the county further tightened restrictions, restaurants in the city reported seeing a surge in customers, predicted when the outdoor dining ban went into effect there. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG), Visitor to Main Street eat at an outdoor dining area between Walnut and Olive Avenues in Huntington Beach, CA, on Thursday, December 3, 2020. “We are using a regional approach in part because that is how hospitals and health care delivery systems work,” Dr. Mark Ghaly, California’s Health and Human Services secretary, said in a Thursday afternoon briefing. However, Eagle County health officials point out “worsening disease trends could prompt a future move to Red. … ... New York Travel Restrictions are still in place as per Governor Cuomo. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS. He previously was a reporter and assistant city editor for the Daily Pilot, a Times Community News publication in Orange County, and before that wrote for the Santa Clarita Valley Signal.