California’s limited stay-at-home order originally set to remain in effect until Dec. 21 has been extended for the foreseeable future as COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the state.
According to the Department of Public Health, the order is slated to expire after the regional stay-at-home order ends in all of California’s regions. The limited order now prohibits nonessential retail businesses from operating between the hours of 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.
The city of Long Beach has received 11,600 doses of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine Dec. 23, which comes in addition to the 3,900 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Mayor Robert Garcia announced in a tweet.
“All hospital and medical personnel should be fully vaccinated in days,” Garcia wrote.
Colorado has seen America’s first case of a new coronavirus strain, Gov. Jared Polis confirmed in a tweet Tuesday. The variant, B117, was first reported in the United Kingdom last month.
Today we discovered Colorado’s first case of the COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7, the same variant discovered in the UK.
The health and safety of Coloradans is our top priority and we will monitor this case, as well as all COVID-19 indicators, very closely. pic.twitter.com/fjyq7QhzBi
— Governor Jared Polis (@GovofCO) December 29, 2020