Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) officials allowed re-openings of several business sectors on Monday as the county officially entered the “orange” tier of the state’s COVID-19 re-opening plan.
The re-openings are now allowed under modifications to the County Health Officer Order implemented earlier this week.
The modifications to the Health Officer Order include the following:
- Bars that do not provide meals will be allowed to open outdoors with distancing, masking and infection control safety measures. Indoor operations are not permitted. Visits are limited to 90 minutes. Masks are required except when people are eating or drinking. There can be no counter seating and people can eat or drink only when they are seated. Tables must be 8 feet apart, with a maximum of 6 people from up to 3 different households. There can be no live entertainment, television is permitted outdoors only and hours of operations are from 11:30 a.m. until 10:00 p.m.
- Breweries, Wineries, Distilleries that do not serve meals can remain open outdoors and can also open indoors at 25% capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer. These establishments will follow the same public health directives as bars for their outdoor areas, however, there are additional requirements for indoor spaces: reservations are required for indoor seating, there is a maximum of 6 people per table and they must be from the same household, and there is no live entertainment or television viewing indoors.
- Restaurants can increase capacity for indoor dining to 50% capacity or 200 people, whichever is less with continued safety modifications.
- Cardrooms can operate indoors at 25% capacity. There must be 8-feet of distancing between tables and masks are always required. Food and beverages remain banned from card tables.
- Places of Worship can hold services indoors at 50% capacity.
- Fitness Centers can operate indoors at 25% capacity and indoor pools can now re-open. Masks are always required unless swimming.
- Movie Theatres can increase capacity to 50% or 200 people, whichever is less. Seats must be reserved, and each group must have 6 feet of distance from other groups in all directions. Eating is allowed in only designated areas or in your reserved seat.
- Family Entertainment Centers can open indoors at 25% capacity for distanced activities, such as bowling or escape rooms. Masks remain required.
- Grocery and Retail Stores can increase capacity to 75%, although Public Health strongly recommends grocery stores remain at 50% capacity until April 15 to allow as many grocery store workers as possible get vaccinated.
- Hair Salons, Barbershops and Personal Care Services can increase capacity to 75% with masks required, except for services where customers need to remove their masks. For services where customers must remove their face coverings, staff must wear a fitted N95 and goggles or a mask with a face shield.
- Museums, Zoos and Aquariums can be open indoors at 50% capacity.
- Youth and Adult Recreational Sports can apply to Public Health for approval for athletic events, tournaments or competitions that involve more than two teams or multiple individuals.
“It is critical businesses follow Health Officer Order directives and infection protocols to protect workers and customers and minimize COVID-19 spread as much as possible. The County’s recovery and the safety of workers and customers depend on businesses fully implementing infection control and physical distancing requirements,” read an official statement from the LADPH.
Amusement parks, outdoor live events and outdoor professional sporting events are also permitted to open with safety measures in place, including occupancy limits, distancing, masking and eating and drinking requirements.
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COVID-19 vaccine eligibility expanded to all residents 50 through 64 years old in addition to all other eligible groups. On April 15, vaccines are set to become available to all L.A. County residents ages 16 and older. While COVID-19 vaccines remain limited, officials say the County is working to ensure that eligible residents and workers in hard-hit communities have increased access to vaccines.
An additional 366 COVID-19 cases and one death were reported across L.A. County Monday, according to officials.
This brings the county’s cumulative total to 1,222,447 positive cases of COVID-19 and 23,276 deaths since the onset of the pandemic, according to the LADPH officials.
Testing results are available for over 6,132,000 people, with a cumulative 19 percent of people testing positive, according to officials.
LADPH officials are reminding the public that people are only considered “fully vaccinated” two weeks after their second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or two weeks after a single-dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
As of Monday, there were 591 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in L.A. County, 26 percent of which are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
The Southern California Region has 32.7 percent staffed adult ICU capacity remaining as of the state’s last update on Tuesday, March 30, according to state health officials.
Residents are encouraged to continue to prevent the spread of COVID-19, to not gather in crowds, stay home when sick, wear a face covering and maintain physical distance from others when outside of the home.
On Sunday, April 4, 2021, 16 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the Santa Clarita Valley, with 26,504 cumulative cases having been reported in the valley over the past year, according to the LADPH. These cases include:
- 20,013 in the City of Santa Clarita* (+14)
- 47 in the unincorporated areas of Bouquet Canyon
- 829 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country
- 3,688 in Castaic* (+2)
- 68 in the unincorporated areas of Newhall
- 1 in Placerita Canyon
- 15 in San Francisquito/Bouquet Canyon
- 17 in unincorporated Sand Canyon
- 128 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus
- 38 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus/Canyon Country
- 1,123 in Stevenson Ranch
- 334 in the unincorporated areas of Val Verde
- 187 in the unincorporated areas of Valencia
*As of Friday, April 2, public health officials have recorded 1,985 cumulative cases have been reported at the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center, including 1,446 at the North County Correctional Facility. Those cases are distributed between both the City of Santa Clarita and Castaic totals. Those cases are distributed between both the City of Santa Clarita and Castaic totals.
In nearby Acton, there have been 463 cumulative cases, as well as 267 (+2) cases in Agua Dulce.
An update on local cases is expected to be available later Monday afternoon.
There were six COVID-19 patients in Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital as of Wednesday, March 10, while 1,171 patients have been discharged since the hospital’s first case was reported in March 2020, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson for the hospital.
One additional death was reported at Henry Mayo on Monday, March 8, with a total of 145 coronavirus deaths at the hospital, with at least 264 COVID-19 deaths reported across the Santa Clarita Valley since March 2020.
Check the Vaccinate L.A. County Website or follow @LAPublicHealth on social media for more information on when and where people in these sectors can get vaccinated.
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