![]() ![]() Mase said the county’s case rate has risen nearly 400% in two weeks “and is predicted to continue to rise.” Mase said the percentage of positive tests for the virus “is higher than at any point in the pandemic,” and hospitalizations have more than doubled. In making its decision to limit public gatherings, Sonoma County Health Officer Dr. Events already planned during the period of the order must be postponed or canceled. It doesn’t apply to regular school instruction or outdoor recess, attendance at work, courthouses, places of worship, cafeterias, shopping malls, stores, restaurants and museums.īut it applies to any other public or private event that brings people together in a single room or space, including at an auditorium, gymnasium, stadium, arena, large conference room, meeting hall or wedding venue, regardless of whether they include assigned seating with entry restricted by tickets and gates. It prohibits gatherings of 50 or more people indoors and 100 or more outdoors, as well as gatherings of 12 or more people considered high risk for severe COVID-19 illness. Wednesday and will remain in effect until Feb. Sonoma County’s order begins at 12:01 a.m. of 2020 at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds in San Jose, Calif. Jeff Smith, executive officer of Santa Clara County, speaking at a press event in Sept. ![]() “I wouldn’t be surprised if something came up in the next week or so.” File photo of Dr. Numbers are going up rapidly,” Santa Clara County Executive Jeff Smith said. ![]() But more restrictions elsewhere aren’t completely off the table. Invoking the kind of restrictions on activities that marked the early months of the pandemic, Sonoma County starting Wednesday will prohibit large gatherings - indoors and out - in an effort to tamp down the alarming spread of COVID-19 from the super-contagious omicron variant.įor now, health officials in other Bay Area counties say they have no plans to follow suit, even though their virus transmission rates are in many cases worse than Sonoma County’s. ![]()
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