San Francisco announced Thursday that it will expand its travel quarantine orders for 10 days.
Both orders will remain in effect until California lifts its permanence order throughout the Bay Area region. Even then, San Francisco officials will review coronavirus-related data, such as the availability of intensive care beds, to make sure they feel comfortable relaxing current restrictions.
“We have been proactive in ordering to stay home and make a forty trip to protect the Franciscans and hoping that by acting quickly, we can smooth the curve and reopen more quickly,” he said. Mayor London Breed in a statement. “It seems like this is working, but we need more time to determine that we are going in the right direction and that the December holidays are not holding us back. There are flashes of hope and now is not the time to leave.”
The travel quarantine order, which was implemented Dec. 17, requires people traveling to San Francisco from outside the bay area to be quarantined for 10 days.
The order to stay at home in the city and county went into effect on December 3rd. Two weeks later, the state demanded its regional arrangement of residence due to the availability of beds in the ICU of the Bay Area region below 15%. . The state could lift its order for the Bay Area region as early as Jan. 7, but San Francisco doesn’t expect that to happen because of the growing number of cases and recorded ICUs.
San Francisco said both health orders appear to have slowed the rate of infection.
“While cases continue to rise, they are growing at a slower pace than when the orders were implemented,” the city and county said in a statement. “As a result of our collective actions, more than 400 deaths may have been prevented.”