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California Lifts Regional Stay-At-Home Order Statewide

California health officials have lifted the regional stay at home order for all areas statewide on Monday morning, allowing counties to ease rules on businesses during the pandemic. Regions include the San Joaquin Valley, Southern California and the Bay Area, where ICU capacities still remain under 15%.

In a press release, health officials said the four-week projection for ICU capacity in the three regions were expected to reach above 15%.

A majority of the counties within the three areas will return to the purple tier in Gov. Gavin Newsom's color-coded tier system, which while less restrictive than the stay at home order, still requires non-essential businesses to close and restaurants to serve outdoors only.

Under the four-tier framework, restaurants can operate outdoors with safety precautions even in counties where coronavirus transmission remains widespread.

The change, which takes effect immediately, could lessen restrictions in in the Southern California, Bay Area and San Joaquin Valley regions, which were still under stay-at-home orders, unless local officials adopt stronger restrictions.

According to the LA Times, "it’s far from clear whether the decision will lead to easing stay-at-home rules in Los Angeles County, which has become a national hotbed of the coronavirus, with hospitals overwhelmed by patients."

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