Santa Clara County announced new restrictions that go even further than the state’s purple tier rules on Sunday — including a quarantine for returning travelers, extremely strict indoor capacity limits on stores and an effective ban on San Francisco 49ers games at Levi’s Stadium.
The changes come amid record-setting highs for single-day case counts and coronavirus-related hospitalizations since the start of the pandemic. As of Saturday, there were 760 new cases and 239 hospitalizations in the county — the latter number has more than doubled since Nov. 12.
“This pandemic is like a high-speed train and our projections tell us that we are on target to derail by the third week of December if we don’t apply brakes right now with all our collective might,” said Santa Clara Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody, adding that current projections don’t take into account Thanksgiving gatherings.
San Mateo County and San Francisco moved into the state’s purple tier on Saturday, triggering restrictions. Calaveras, Lake, Modoc and Plumas counties also got kicked to the purple tier, while Alpine, Inyo and Mariposa counties moved to the red tier.
The state announced 11,996 newly recorded cases on Friday, with a 14-day positivity rate of 6%. Friday’s additions bring California’s total to 1,183,320 confirmed cases to date, with 19,089 COVID-19 deaths.
Santa Clara now has the highest case rate of any county in the Bay Area, according to Cody.
“We have come to a place where our cases and our hospitalizations are so high that we must do something to settle things down,” she said. “I have been sounding the alarm about our rising case rates and hospitalizations for some time and we are now at a critical inflection point. In fact what we do and what we don’t do starting today may mean a matter of life and death for many living in our county.”
Among Santa Clara’s new restrictions are limiting capacity at grocery stores, drug stores and pharmacies to 25% and other indoor stores to 10%. The county strongly discourages travel, closing hotels except for essential purposes like quarantine isolations and requiring people to quarantine for 14 days upon returning to the county if they traveled more than 150 miles away. Outdoor dining is still allowed.
The county is also prohibiting all contact sports with people outside one’s household, which means the 49ers will have to find a new short-term home. The directive, which will last until at least Dec. 21, impacts Stanford and San Jose State teams as well.
The new rules are the strictest in the Bay Area but don’t go as far as Los Angeles County, which issued a new stay-at-home order going into effect Monday that bans most gatherings.
Janelle Bitker, Erin Allday and Sarah Ravani are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. Email: janelle.bitker@sfchronicle.com, eallday@sfchronicle.com, sravani@sfchronicle.com. Twitter: @janellebitker @erinallday @SarRavani
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