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California extends stay-at-home order for vast region
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30, 2020 (BSS/Xinhua) – The regional stay-at-home order
for the vast region of the U.S. California state has been extended amid a
COVID-19 surge, authorities announced Tuesday.
California Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly said in a news
conference that the stay-at-home order for the 11-county Southern California
region and the San Joaquin Valley region, which includes 12 counties in
Central California, has been extended.
The three-week order was previously set to expire on Monday.
The remaining intensive care unit (ICU) capacity in the two regions are
still zero as of Tuesday.
At the start of this month, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced
plans for the regional stay-at-home order to contain the pandemic based on
hospital capacity, which is designed to be triggered when fewer than 15
percent of beds are available in ICU for a region.
Southern California and San Joaquin Valley regions, home to 33 million
people, have been the first part of the most populous U.S. state with a
population of around 40 million to enter the stay-at-home order since Dec. 6
after the ICU capacity in the two regions dropped below 15 percent.
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