California to close indoor restaurants, movie theaters and bars statewide as coronavirus cases rise

Posted on by Jakiyah Haywood

California Gov. Gavin Newson demands the closing of all bars and dine-in restaurants, movie theaters, museums and other indoor businesses across the state as cases of COVID-19 surge.

What We Know:

  • Businesses that will be affected include all operations at bars and the indoor operations at restaurants, wineries and tasting rooms, movie theaters, family entertainment centers, zoos, museums and card rooms. All except for bars will be allowed to operate outdoors, if possible, he said.
  • Hospitalizations in the state over the past 14 days are up 28 percent; ICU admissions have risen 20 percent. Both of those counts are down in comparison to where they were two weeks ago, from 50 percent and 39 percent, respectively.

  • Testing had kept up with demand over the past few weeks, “We’re starting to see delays, once again, in test results,” said Newsom. That does not bode well for the “data-driven” decision-making process that Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti have espoused.
  • Newsom also ordered the closure of indoor operations for fitness centers, worship services, personal care services, malls, offices, hair salons and barbershops for all counties that have been on California’s monitoring list for three or more consecutive days, which represent 80% of the state’s population.

  • This order comes right after Newsom previously ordered these businesses to close in counties on the state’s “monitoring list”. The new order, which will now apply across the state, is effective immediately, Newsom said.
  • What the orders did not include was an end date. Newsom did not provide a time frame for the businesses to be shut down. Thirty counties are on the monitoring list, including Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange counties, Newsom advised.

  • Newson stated that the state reported 8,358 new cases on Sunday. The percentage of the state’s cases returning back positive went up to 7.4%. “The data suggests not everyone is acting with common sense,” Newsom said at a press conference Monday.

California hospitals also reported an increase in the number of coronavirus patients, growing 28% over a two-week period. There were 6,485 people hospitalized with COVID-19 as of Sunday.

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