San Francisco to adopt stay-at-home order to contain Covid-19

San Francisco, Dec 5 : San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced that the city will join counties across the Bay Area to impose significant restrictions across the region to mitigate the unabated Covid-19 resurgence in California.
Due to the aggressive increase in Covid-19 cases and continuing rise in hospitalizations across the city and the region, Bay Area counties will voluntarily implement California’s stay-at-home order to significantly reduce gatherings and additional activities to stabilize the virus transmission, Xinhua news agency quoted the Mayor’s announcement on Friday as saying.
San Francisco and the other Bay Area counties are opting into the regional stay-at-home order that Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Thursday for regions with less than 15 per cent capacity in ICU beds.
Although San Francisco and the Bay Area have not yet met that threshold, the city in partnership with Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Santa Clara and City of Berkeley, is pre-emptively implementing these restrictions to flatten the curve of confirmed cases, which continue to surge, and prevent hospitals from being overrun across the region, according to the announcement.
As of 10 p.m. on Sunday, San Francisco will close all personal services, outdoor dining, public outdoor playgrounds, outdoor museums, zoos and aquariums, drive-in theatres, and open-air tour busses and boats.
Additionally, San Francisco will halt indoor limited personal training in gyms and limit outdoor gyms and outdoor fitness classes to a maximum group size of 12 people at a time, including instructors and participants.