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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KSBY) — Dr. Mark Ghaly, Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, said successful a property league Monday that the authorities is taking steps to get up of the dispersed of COVID-19 done the holidays.
The authorities is enacting a cosmopolitan indoor disguise mandate statewide, acceptable to past from Dec. 15 to Jan. 15.
The mandate volition use to each counties successful California, Ghaly said, including those not presently requiring indoor masking.
Additionally, those attending events with 1,000 oregon much attendees who don’t stock impervious of vaccination volition person to contiguous a antagonistic COVID-19 trial upon entry. These trial requirements are for shorter windows than the 72 hours listed successful erstwhile guidance. Ghaly stated that PCR trial results indispensable person been taken wrong 48 hours of the event, and accelerated COVID-19 tests indispensable person been taken wrong 24 hours.
Finally, travelers entering oregon returning to California are recommended to get tested for COVID-19 wrong 3 to 5 days of arrival.
Ghaly said that the astir caller nationalist wellness measures are a effect to a statewide 47% summation successful COVID-19 lawsuit rates since Thanksgiving and the remaining uncertainty surrounding the Omicron variant.
Ghaly called the disguise mandate the "common consciousness happening to do."
The announcement comes arsenic California surpasses 75,000 deaths and the United States nears 800,000 deaths from the microorganism since the pandemic's start.
Ghaly admitted that overmuch remains chartless astir the Omicron variant but said that it seems to person a accelerated replication period, which could strain hospitals during the vacation season.
This communicative was primitively reported by Bethany Reeves connected ksby.com.
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