David Benda, Jessica Skropanic and Mike Chapman
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Published 8: 37 PM EDT Might perhaps even 26, 2020
Butte, Del Norte counties’ COVID-19 circumstances each and each upward thrust to 40; pass Shasta County’s count
Tuesday, 2: 40 p.m., Might perhaps even 26
The preference of COVID-19 circumstances in Butte and Del Norte counties each and each rose to 40 as of mid-afternoon Tuesday.
On Monday, Butte County Public Health reported 35 known COVID-19 circumstances, whereas Del Norte’s circumstances almost doubled from a total of 23 over the weekend to 40.
Both those counties now contain more virus circumstances than Shasta County, which had 36 known circumstances Tuesday.
Butte County nicely being officials contain mentioned two of 180 folks that attended a Mother’s Day church service in Oroville contain examined positive for COVID-19, The Linked Press reported Monday.
Tehama County on Tuesday launched a brand new virus case, bringing Tehama’s total to four. The person that examined positive for COVID-19 is a man in his 50s.
Fourth straight day of no new circumstances in Shasta County
Tuesday, Might perhaps even 26, 5: 45 p.m.
Meanwhile, Tuesday marked the fourth straight day without a new coronavirus circumstances in Shasta County, nicely being officials mentioned.
Despite no new circumstances, four folks remained in isolation and 16 had been in quarantine in Shasta County.
There contain been 36 circumstances of coronavirus in the county and 4 folks contain died, officials mentioned.
There contain been 4,638 tests administered in Shasta County and there had been no new sufferers in the nicely being facility, officials mentioned.
The most stylish Shasta County coronavirus sufferers encompass a girl in her 30s and a girl in her 40s, each and each of whom had been in isolation at house, officials mentioned.
Hair salons, barbershops given OK to reopen with restrictions
Tuesday, 1 p.m., Might perhaps even 26
A day after declaring that churches across the say can reopen, Gov. Gavin Newsom launched Tuesday that hair salons and barbershops can open seeing clients in plenty of California counties.
However “extreme modifications” must calm be in region, Newsom mentioned on Twitter.
Per The Linked Press, amongst the guidelines for hair salons and barbershops are that clients and team of workers must wear masks all over hair cuts and various shut-contact companies.
Shasta is one among the 47 counties in the say which contain been granted variances to fetch-house orders that enable them to run up the reopening route of.
The new guidelines for hair salons accumulate not lengthen to all magnificence companies, in line with AP. Nail salons calm don’t appear to be cleared to open, and hair salons need to not fabricate companies corresponding to eyebrow waxing or facials that require a employee to the touch a buyer’s face.
The say’s guidelines demand clients to be screened for virus signs and for team of workers and patrons to use face coverings all over hair cuts and various companies, AP reported. The say suggests team of workers use goggles or face shields as further precaution.
As well, the AP says hair salons and barbershops could also must keep away with magazines and choices corresponding to water and occasional for clients. Reception areas must contain hand sanitizer and ample region for social distancing. Work stations and stools are to be disinfected between each and each buyer.
Oregon Shakespeare Pageant won’t resume 2020 season
1: 30 p.m., Tuesday, Might perhaps even 26
The Oregon Shakespeare Pageant has canceled its 2020 season.
Admire assorted entertainment venues, the theater group’s season was once postponed when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Officials firstly launched a view to reopen Sept. 8.
However after a Might perhaps even 7 press convention by Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, the competition launched it was once canceling the leisure of the 2020 season.
Brown mentioned that gargantuan gatherings in the say would not return till at the very least the cease of September, and even that timeline is tenuous.
“The nicely being and security of our total Ashland group, alongside side artists, team of workers, volunteers, patrons, and competition partners, is our greatest doubtless priority,” Nataki Garrett, OSF inventive director, mentioned on the group’s web page online. “It is with expansive sadness that we’re compelled to execute OSF’s 2020 fall season. My principal plan is to guard the manner forward for this infamous 85-300 and sixty five days-extinct organization and to narrate expansive theatre wait on to our stages in 2021.”
Census restarts self-discipline work in Northern California
Tuesday, Might perhaps even 26, 10 a.m.
The Census Bureau is resuming its Northern California self-discipline operations that encompass Shasta, Siskiyou and Tehama counties.
The bureau’s self-discipline work was once suspended March 18 attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Census team of workers will resume dropping off questionnaire packets for the 2020 Census at the entrance doorways of households that don’t contain fashioned mailing addresses. These households are in rural areas that use post office packing containers, Census spokeswoman Marna Davis mentioned in an e-mail.
Davis mentioned the self-discipline team of workers contain gone through training to follow bodily-distancing guidelines. They’ll even be carrying non-public protective equipment supplied by the manager.
“This operation is contactless and follows primarily the most most stylish federal nicely being and security guidelines,” Davis mentioned.
The Census needs households to answer promptly the use of an ID number in the packet. Of us can reply online, by phone or by the use of the paper fabricate in the packet, she mentioned.
The questionnaire packets will be disbursed to 6,734 households in Shasta County, 4,910 in Siskiyou and 1,725 in Tehama. The team of workers also will be going to households in 20 assorted Northern California counties.
Lassen Volcanic Nationwide Park to reopen Friday
Tuesday, Might perhaps even 26, 7: 45 a.m.
Lassen Volcanic Nationwide Park will all over all over again welcome company on Friday.
“Lassen Volcanic Nationwide Park will elevate entry with the outlet of the 30-mile park twin carriageway, Butte Lake Boulevard, Warner Valley Boulevard, and all mountain ice climbing trails (with the exception of Bumpass Hell),” the park’s web page online says.
The park’s campgrounds, alongside side Manzanita Lake, are not allotment of this principal segment of reopening.
Lassen had hoped to reopen Memorial Day weekend, but Superintendent Jim Richardson mentioned the park had not but bought reputation of its reopening view.
The nationwide park has been closed attributable to the coronavirus since March 27.
Suppose nicely being officials give churches the OK to reopen
California on Monday launched that churches across the say can reopen with some restrictions.
Church buildings that reopen must restrict attendance to 25% of the building’s most capability, or up to 100 attendees, the California Division of Public Health mentioned.
“Collectively, our actions contain helped bend the curve and minimize infections in our say,” Suppose Public Health Officer Dr. Sonia Angell mentioned in a news release. “As more of us will be leaving our properties, keeping bodily distance, carrying face coverings in public, and washing your arms continuously are more predominant than ever to attend guard yourself and those round you.”
Restful, the new guidelines for fancy encourages non secular establishments to proceed online companies and activities to guard those who’re at possibility and older adults.
Per the say Division of Health, for non secular companies and funerals to reopen they must:
- Set and implement a COVID-19 prevention view for every and each region, practice team of workers on the view, and on a fashioned basis judge exhibit of offices for compliance.
- Prepare workers and volunteers on COVID-19, alongside side cease it from spreading and which underlying nicely being circumstances can even merely build folks more prone to contracting the virus.
- Put in pressure cleaning and disinfecting protocols.
- Set bodily distancing guidelines.
- Church team of workers contributors and company also must be instant to wear cloth face coverings. Too, the church must calm conceal team of workers for temperature and signs at the origin of their shifts.
In three weeks, say nicely being officials will assess the impression of the non secular companies guidelines.
“This 21-day interval accounts for seven days for churches to put together and reopen and an further 14-day incubation duration of COVID-19,” the news release mentioned.
Meanwhile, the new guidelines for retailers that allowed for counties that got approval to reopen stores of their region now applies across the say.
Shasta County was once amongst several counties that bought early approval, and its major taking a look for vacation region, the Mt. Shasta Mall, opened Might perhaps even 18.
The news that churches can reopen comes as confirmed coronavirus circumstances in Shasta County stood at 36 as of Monday morning.
Native nicely being officials launched new numbers Monday evening after the press carve-off date.
Siskiyou County
On Monday, Siskiyou County Public Health launched the reopening of areas of fancy, in-retailer retail, hair salons and nail salons — all with modifications to enable for social distancing and hygiene.
Under county guidelines, areas of fancy can preserve non secular companies and funerals that restrict attendance to 25% of a building’s capability, or up to 100 folks, whichever is decrease.
Witness a reproduction of the reopening view at https://bit.ly/2zoLxtp.
As of Tuesday, the preference of confirmed coronavirus circumstances in Siskiyou County remained at six, unchanged for bigger than per week.
All six sufferers had been reported to contain recovered, in line with Siskiyou County Public Health.
Health officials conducted nearly 1,400 COVID-19 tests as of 9 a.m. Tuesday. That is ample for approximately 3% of residents. Outcomes for 59 of those tests are calm pending.
Mercy Scientific Center in Mount Shasta continues to present COVID-19 screenings for predominant team of workers, readily available in the market by appointment. Making an strive out is free to sufferers, and is on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at Dignity Health Mercy Scientific Center, 902 Pine St. in Mount Shasta. Name 926-7132.
Varied Northern California counties
On Tuesday, Del Norte County launched three new confirmed circumstances of the virus.
Now not one among the plenty of counties listed below reported further circumstances on Monday.
In far Northern California, this is the keep COVID-19 case totals stand, as of Tuesday afternoon:
- Butte County, 40 circumstances
- Shasta County, 36 circumstances
- Glenn County, 12 circumstances
- Siskiyou County, 6 circumstances
- Colusa County, 5 circumstances
- Lassen County, 4 circumstances
- Plumas County, 4 circumstances
- Tehama County, 4 circumstances
- Trinity County, 1 case
- Modoc County, no circumstances
Coastal counties:
- Humboldt, 94
- Del Norte, 40
- Mendocino, 22
What COVID-19 looks love in California
Statewide, the total preference of confirmed COVID-19 circumstances increased to 96,733 on Monday, the California Division of Health reported Tuesday.
The total preference of deaths statewide is 3,814, an elevate of 19 from Sunday.
The preference of positive COVID-19 nicely being facility sufferers stood at 3,065 as of Monday.
The bulk of hospitalized sufferers – 1,477 of larger than 4,000 – are in Los Angeles County, followed by 317 in San Diego County and 300 in Orange County.
Here’s how California’s coronavirus circumstances ruin down by age as of Monday:
- Age 0-17: 4,872
- Age 18-49: 49,643
- Age 50-64: 23,185
- Age 65+: 18,898
- Unknown/lacking: 135
Health-care team of workers made up 9,360 of California’s confirmed circumstances, in line with say nicely being officials. Of that number, 50 contain died. The preference of deaths dropped by one in line with verification data, nicely being officials mentioned.
U.S. and global case numbers
As of two p.m. Tuesday, the preference of confirmed coronavirus circumstances in the U.S. was once about 1,675,500, in line with Johns Hopkins College.
That number contains bigger than 98,700 folks which contain died as a results of the virus, and bigger than 379,000 who recovered from it.
Worldwide, the preference of confirmed circumstances stood at 5.55 million.
Of that total, bigger than 348,000 folks contain died and bigger than 2,27 million folks contain recovered.
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