29September 2020
After months of closures amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to reopen outside operations at wineries, breweries and card rooms, a move that will work in one week.
In accordance with state standards, breweries and wineries will need to partner with a food vendor in order to resume.
Visitors to card spaces will be required to use face coverings at all times and are not allowed to consume or drink.Without public
notice, Supervisors Kathryn Barger and Janice Hahn presented the motion at the end of the weekly conference. Supervisors Sheila Kuehl and Mark Ridley-Thomas did not support the relocation.
“In my own modest viewpoint, I think it's not a fantastic idea to say, ‘Thank you, Dr. Ferrer, but we're not going to support your recommendations,'” Kuehl said before voting against the motion.Supervisor Hilda Solis cast the winning vote.Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer previously said that the county's careful technique over the last several weeks has actually assisted support COVID-19 numbers, but that due to the fact that it remains in the Tier 1 level of the state's reopening plan, it ought to continue to continue slowly.The board likewise passed a motion directing the county's Department of Public Health to execute the county's school waiver system for grades K-2, beginning at 30 schools each week.
Advertisement Earlier Tuesday, state officials announced that 10 more counties had progressed through the state's four-part, color-coded reopening strategy, however no location in Southern California was enabled to change tiers.Butte, Contra Costa, Fresno, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Santa Barbara and Yolo counties
moved from Tier
1, likewise referred to as the purple tier, to Tier 2, likewise known as the red tier. The modifications denote the risk of spread of COVID-19, moving from prevalentto substantial, according to the state's labeling system.
3 other counties– Amador, Calaveras and San Francisco– advanced from Tier 2 to Tier 3, also known as the orange tier, in which a county is thought about to have a moderate threat of infection. Ad Movement through the tiers allows counties to even more reopen services and expand visitor capacity for some currently resumed sectors
. Several counties that have actually altered tiers have been in the course of current wildfires– which have displaced 10s of thousands of locals– and smoke, which has prompted others to stay within. Dr. Mark Ghaly, the state
secretary, stated Tuesday that those factors did not have a substantial impact on the number of reported infections or testing capability in those locations.
The state, which has actually taped more than 814,000 infections given that March, is presently testing 130,000 individuals per day. Advertisement The state's seven-day average for everyday infections is presently 3,300, and the 14-day average positivity rate is 2.8%. Although those numbers are lower than what was seen over the summertime, there has actually been a small boost in the variety of hospitalizations in the state. On Friday, Ghaly alerted that the state projected an 89%increase in COVID-19-related hospitalizations by Oct. 25. The rate of transmission in Southern California is somewhat higher than that in the Bay Area, Gov. Gavin Newsom stated Monda y, while caution of the potential for a 2nd wave of the infection. Ad”The transmission rate in various counties are different. We don't live in the aggregate,”Ghaly stated Tuesday.In Los Angeles County, which toggled in between metrics for Tier 1 and Tier 2 last week, authorities have not seen an awaited surge in cases linked to Labor Day, however
the transmission rate has crept up to 1.02. The goal is to keep that number listed below 1. Ferrer alerted Monday that neighborhood transmission was still high.In Orange County, which just recently reopened its schools, authorities had actually intended to move to Tier 3. However a slight bump in cases has kept the county
in Tier 2. A county must fulfill the limit of a new tier for 2 consecutive weeks before advancing. Ad San Diego County, which recently avoided regressing to the more limiting Tier 1, is once again on the verge of moving backwards, officials said this week.