As had been expected, Santa Cruz County was added Sunday to the list of California counties being monitored because of concerns about coronavirus.
The county’s per-capita number of cases for the previous 14 days exceeded 100 per 100,000 residents on Wednesday. The following day it was notified that it would be added to the monitoring list if there was no improvement by Sunday.
Thirty-seven of California’s 58 counties are being monitored by the state because of concerns about coronavirus.
On the map above, Santa Cruz County is shown in orange. The 36 others (in red) have been on the watch list for more than three days, meaning they are under restrictions that forbid the operation of the following businesses:
- Gyms and fitness centers
- Indoor hair salons and barbershops
- Other indoor personal care services, like nail salons and body waxing
- Shopping malls
- Places of worship and cultural ceremonies including weddings and funerals
- Offices for non-critical infrastructure sectors
All counties in the state are prohibited from allowing operation of:
- Indoor restaurants
- Bars and brewpubs, unless alcohol is sold only with food in outdoor spaces
- Wineries and tasting rooms
- Movie theaters
- Indoor family entertainment centers, such as bowling alleys and batting cages
- Indoor museums
- Cardrooms
The watch list counties:
- Butte
- Glenn
- Yuba
- Colusa
- Placer
- Sutter
- Yolo
- Sacramento
- Solano
- Napa
- Sonoma
- Marin
- San Francisco
- Contra Costa
- Alameda
- Santa Clara
- Santa Cruz
- San Benito
- Monterey
- San Luis Obispo
- San Joaquin
- Stanislaus
- Merced
- Madera
- Mono
- Fresno
- Kings
- Tulare
- Kern
- Santa Barbara
- Ventura
- Los Angeles
- Orange
- San Bernardino
- Riverside
- San Diego
- Imperial
