NEW YORK (Dagbladet): Residents of Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley are being told to stay home after the capacity for intensive care in the areas approaches exploded. The areas now have less than 15 percent of the beds available, reports CNN. The measure is taken to try to control the dramatically growing number of admissions for corona.
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The order covers about 27 million people in cities such as Los Angeles and San Diego and takes effect at midnight Monday to Monday local time.
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“The risk of covid in the community is higher now than it has ever been,” San Diego County Medical Director Eric McDonald told a news conference Saturday. AP.
The announcement comes after the San Francisco area issued a similar message to its 6 million residents on Friday. This also takes effect on Sunday.
– We do not think we can wait for the state’s new restrictions to take effect. This is an emergency situation, says Chris Farnitano, with the health authorities in Contra Costa outside San Francisco, according to the news agency.
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In addition to people having to stay at home, businesses such as bars, hair salons, museums, cinemas, playgrounds, amusement parks and other indoor recreational activities are closed. Travel is prohibited with the exception of what is necessary for permitted activities.
New record
Schools, which are already open, can remain open. Stores may be open, but only with 20 percent capacity. Restaurants are only allowed to be open for collection or delivery. The rules will last for at least three weeks, and thus extend over the Christmas holidays.
In Southern California, the capacity of hospital intensive care fell to 12.5 percent on Saturday. In the San Joaquin area, capacity was down to 8.6 percent, according to the state authorities.
Høie defied Guldvog
California again set a new record on Saturday with more than 25,000 new cases in one day. More than 1,0200 people are hospitalized with covid-19 in the state.
The situation in California fits into a larger and extremely gloomy picture of how the pandemic seems to be spreading dramatically in the United States.
Most deaths
For the third day in a row, the United States on Saturday recorded the highest daily infection rate so far during the pandemic with nearly 230,000 cases, according to Johns Hopkins.
The university’s overview from 2.30 am on Sunday shows that 2,527 new corona – related deaths were also registered in the last 24 hours. It is also the highest that is registered.
The United States is the country with the most cases and deaths in the world and has experienced a sharp increase in infection rates and hospitalizations.
The number of hospital admissions is also increasing, especially in the most populous states of California, Texas, Florida and New York, according to the Covid Tracking Project. As of December 4, 101,276 corona patients received treatment in hospitals, shows the overview. It is also the highest number recorded during the pandemic.
In all, more than 14.9 million cases and 287,825 deaths have been recorded in connection with the corona pandemic in the United States, according to Worldometers.
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