The state of California is expected to lift the stay-at-home order in the greater Sacramento region as soon as today, officials said Tuesday.
Multiple counties within the region issued press releases announcing that four-week projections for intensive care unit bed capacity exceed 15%. Butte and Yuba counties said their jurisdictions have exited the order and are now in the purple tier, meaning several business sectors can reopen with outdoor operations.
The complete list of counties that could be impacted by the order being lifted includes: Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado, Sierra, Nevada, Butte, Plumas, Colusa, Yolo, Alpine, Amador, Yuba and Sutter.
Brenda Bongiorno, a spokesperson for Sacramento's health department, confirmed the news with the Sacramento Bee and said the region is exiting the state's order effective immediately.
"The state has not made a public announcement to this effect," Bongiorno added. "In the event an announcement is made, Sacramento County will still need to revise the local public health order. At that time, Sacramento County would revert back to the purple tier restrictions outlined in the Blueprint fro a Safer Economy."
The blueprint is the color-coded tier system that dictates restrictions in counties where the more strict stay-at-home order is not in effect.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom introduced the stay-at-home order in December to prevent local health systems from collapsing under the weight of skyrocketing COVID-19 caseloads.
It divided the state into five broad regions, restricting a region when intensive care unit bed capacity falls below 15%. The order requires most businesses, except essential services and retail, to close. Residents in regions under the order are asked to stay at home except for work, shopping or other essential activities, such as going to the doctor's office.
With the order lifted in the greater Sacramento region, only the Bay Area, Los Angeles and San Joaquin regions remain under the stay-at-home order. The Northern California region isn't under the order and its counties are required to abide by the color-coded tier system.
The state's top health official, Dr. Mark Ghaly, said in a press briefing Tuesday that the state was working on re-calculating four-week projections for ICU bed capacity and would release new information today or Wednesday. Ghaly didn't say whether the order would be lifted in any regions.
While California has experienced a dire surge since the Thanksgiving holiday, the state's Health and Human Services secretary said there were signs the pandemic was easing slightly.
Ghaly noted that at the start of January, state hospitals were admitting on average 3,500 new COVID-19 patients a day. That number has come down to 2,500 new daily patients in recent days.
Ghaly called this data point the "biggest signal that things are starting to flatten and improve."
The California Department of Public Health and the Sacramento Department of Public Health didn't respond to an immediate request for comment.
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