California Gov. Gavin Newsom has just announced plans for the immediate resumption of indoor dining for Orange County, albeit in a limited capacity of 25 percent. The news was delivered at a press conference just moments ago, with California Health and Human Services secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly announcing that five new counties could move into limited indoor dining. Newsom said that his office is “monitoring” another seven counties to potentially reopen indoor dining in the coming weeks as well. Today’s indoor dining announcement is part of California’s “new, simplified” color-coded reopening schedule , said Newsom, which removes local guidance and puts the power of business reopening (including restaurants but also breweries, wineries, distilleries, malls, gyms, hair salons, and more) during the ongoing pandemic squarely in the hands of the governor’s office up in Sacramento. Indoor dining was previously closed to restaurants statewide back on July 13 ; in Los Angeles County, home to 10 million people and to the state’s highest concentration of COVID-19 cases, the closure has been in effect since July 1 . Each of California’s 58 counties are now divided into various shaded tiers, which range from a “widespread” chance of community COVID-19 transmission to “minimal,” […]
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