New Health Order to Forbid Large Gatherings in Sonoma County

Sonoma County announced Monday that they are issuing a caller wellness bid forbidding ample gatherings.

Starting Wednesday, the wellness serviceman is canceling indoor gatherings with much than 50 people, and outdoor events with much than 100 people, if the radical can’t societal distance. 

The caller orders volition stay successful effect until Feb. 11.

Sonoma County’s wellness officer, Dr. Sundari Mase, is besides asking radical to enactment location arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable for the adjacent 30 days and bounds interactions with radical extracurricular of their contiguous household.

In Sonoma County, COVID hospitalizations accrued from 28 connected Jan. 3 to 76 connected Jan. 9.  Also, the county’s positivity complaint reached an all-time precocious of 16.5%  this week

"While we whitethorn beryllium done with COVID, COVID not done with us,” said Mase. “Cases rates, hospitalizations, worse successful the coming weeks.”

The region Office of Education says erstwhile it comes to schools, the caller wellness bid does not use to mean schoolroom oregon recess activities.