Fight back. The only two remaining counties in the least restrictive yellow tier, Mariposa … However, no public hearings were held. SLO County is currently in the red tier, but health officials warn the current case count indicates a purple tier is looming. The state health department developed the guidelines after consulting with the California Interscholastic Federation and the California Association of Recreation and Park Districts. Counties in the purple category … San Francisco, San Mateo, Calaveras, Lake and Plumas counties were all demoted from the red to the purple tier. Wake up people! This category limits retail capacity to 25% and closes food courts in malls. Outdoor physical conditioning, practice and skill training are all allowed across the state, including in counties that have implemented a stay-at-home order or are under the state’s stay-at-home order. The power grab continues. Schools in the Widespread (purple) tier aren’t permitted to reopen for in-person instruction, unless they receive a waiver from their local health department for grades TK-6. • Service by Publication SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) – San Francisco and San Mateo counties have joined the other counties in the most restrictive purple tier. Gavin Newsom said Monday afternoon. California’s purple tier is the state’s tightest stage for coronavirus restrictions, and with Sacramento and San Diego counties assigned to it Tuesday, the … Now that they see how compliant we are, they’ll try it again with another disease. The basketball season, which was supposed to start in March, is in jeopardy now too. Fresno, Merced, and Kings counties have regressed to the “widespread” or purple tier. Purple represents counties with widespread Covid-19, red reflects areas with a substantial number of cases, orange is the moderate tier, and yellow reflects areas with a minimal number of cases. Don’t let them get away with this. While COVID-19 cases continue to spike, more protective restrictions have been implemented because of San Mateo County’s official designation into the Purple Tier. These health officials are shutting down society to increase their own power over our lives. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that 41 of the 58 counties in California will be in the purple tier, the most restrictive in the state's color-coded system. In moving from purple to red or red to orange tiers, small counties are subject to all existing Blueprint rules (test positivity thresholds, minimum duration of 3 weeks in a tier before moving to a less restrictive tier, inability to skip over a tier while moving from more restrictive to less restrictive tier … And this won’t be the last time they try this. A curfew is in effect for most Bay Area counties now in the Purple Tier. High school football and basketball won’t be allowed in counties under the state’s purple or red Covid tiers, the California Department of Public Health has ruled. © Copyright 2018, 2019, 2020, The Daily Post. Just email or call (650) 328-7700 to place your legal advertisement. Joe Vazquez reports Governor Newsom is warning a statewide lockdown could be on the horizon. Can my school open under the Blueprint for a Safer Economy? Daily coronavirus cases have … A curfew is in effect for most Bay Area counties now in the Purple Tier. Privacy Policy. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — It has been a little over a month since Kern County moved into the red tier, but it’s making its way back to the purple tier. Here are a few that are grating […], BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer San Mateo County’s top health official says that the state’s restrictions on the county are “flawed,” and that there is no evidence that […], BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Teachers, students and parents called in last night (Nov. 10) to express their disapproval of the Palo Alto school district’s plan to bring […]. Both San Mateo and Santa Clara counties are in the purple tier, the most restrictive of the tiers. • Notices of Public Sale Gov. Gyms , … Marin County remains in the red tier, but county health officials said it's on the verge of regressing into the purple. Napa County Still In Purple Tier Despite Bay Area Stay-Home Order The new order adopted this week by several Bay Area counties requires most nonessential businesses to temporarily stop all operations. The outlook for San Luis Obispo County in terms of reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a turn for the worse. Nine counties rolled back over the weekend on the state’s reopening system. State officials will re-evaluate that date in early January depending on the state of the pandemic and the state’s capacity of hospital and intensive care unit beds. The list of which sports and activities are allowed in each tier can be found at https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/outdoor-indoor-recreational-sports.aspx. To get all the local news, including many stories you can’t find online, pick up the Post every morning at 1,000 Mid-Peninsula locations. Colusa, Del Norte, Humboldt and Lassen regressed from red to purple, while Calaveras went from orange to red. With the virus surging across California, San Mateo County’s move into the Purple Tier was highly anticipated. For sports in all four tiers, competition will not be allowed to resume statewide until Jan. 25 at the earliest. Solano County will be the latest of several counties that have to move back to the purple tier amid a rise in cases. This includes San Benito County and Santa Cruz County. By viewing our video content, you are accepting the terms of our. Joe Vazquez reports Governor Newsom is warning a statewide lockdown could be on the horizon. More than two dozen sports and exercise activities are allowed in the most-restrictive “purple” tier, according to the new guidelines, including biking, golf, ice and roller skating, programs like yoga and Zumba, running, swimming, skiing, snowboarding and hiking. Effective at 12:01 a.m. on November 18, all activities and sectors must conform to the State’s requirements for counties in the Purple Tier. For those sports to resume, the counties would have to drop by two tier levels to the moderate orange tier. “I know as a parent and athlete myself, how important exercise is to maintain physical and mental health, and we encourage members of the same household to do physical activities together and outdoors until the current and alarming surge passes,” said Dr. Erica Pan, the state’s acting public health officer. Purple, or Tier 1, indicates that Covid is widespread throughout the county - with more than seven cases per 100,000 or more than eight percent of … If a county’s case rate and positivity rate fall into different tiers, the county remains in the stricter tier. Yolo County joined most of the the rest of the state Monday in being moved back to the most restrictive purple tier on the state’s COVID-19 blueprint. 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(KGO) -- Marin remains the only Bay Area county in the red tier Monday after San Francisco and San Mateo counties moved to the most restrictive purple tier over the weekend. Citing a massive surge in new coronavirus cases across California, Gov. “Despite how hard it has been to do this for so many months, it’s imperative now more than ever that we all follow public health guidance by staying home and not mixing with other households,” Pan said. Terms of Use. The guidelines were not voted upon by the Legislature. “We need everyone to take seriously their responsibility to protect their entire community, and in the meantime, we all can look forward to these activities we can resume in 2021,” Pan said. • Legal name changes Truckee-Tahoe area businesses are again being hit with increased restrictions as Nevada and Placer counties joined 39 others now in the state’s most restrictive, purple tier of its four-tier reopening matrix. The four tiers are purple, red, orange and yellow. — Staff and wire reports, OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The coronavirus pandemic is bad enough, but why does it have to come with annoying slogans? Gavin Newsom announced Monday afternoon. The move means 41 of the state’s 58 counties — including San Diego and Orange — are now in the restrictive “purple” tier, which severely restricts capacity at … All rights reserved. Only a fraction of the local news stories covered by the Daily Post appear on this website. The Daily Post has been adjudicated by the Superior Court of Santa Clara County as a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Palo Alto and County of Santa Clara, and is qualified to publish legal notices, including: • Fictitious Business Name Statements (FBNs) Residents in a county with a stay-at-home order are strongly encouraged to avoid exercising with people from another household under any circumstance. ©2020 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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