California is shutting down again today. California’s governor, Gavin Newsom on Monday clamped new restrictions on businesses as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations soared. He ordered the statewide closure of indoor restaurants, bars, movie theaters, gyms, churches, salons, zoos, and other entertainment venues in light of a new surge in COVID-19 cases.
California reported 8,358 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, with a 14-day average of 7,800 new cases daily. Total count stand at 329,162 confirmed cases and 7,040 deaths. Making California, alongside Florida, Arizona, and Texas, the worst-hit states in the country.
Newsom said at a news briefing, “It’s incumbent upon all of us to recognize soberly that COVID-19 is not going away any time soon, until there is a vaccine and/or an effective therapy.”
“We’ve made this point on multiple occasions and that is we’re moving back into a modification mode of our original stay-at-home order.”
“The data suggest not everybody is practicing common sense,” he added.
Newsom called the new move critical to stemming a surge in COVID-19 cases that have strained hospitals in several of the state’s rural counties.
The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second largest after New York City, and the San Diego Unified School District which instruct a combined 706,000 students and employ 88,000 people, said in a joint statement they would teach only online when school resumes in August, citing “vague and contradictory” science and government guidelines.
“The skyrocketing infection rates of the past few weeks make it clear the pandemic is not under control,” said a statement made by both school districts.
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