San Francisco Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax said Thursday as the city’s COVID-19 cases continue to soar, a new health order will require anyone coming into San Francisco from outside of the Bay Area to quarantine for 10 days.
The new health order also strongly discourages any nonessential travel within the Bay Area and Santa Cruz regions in order to further limit the spread of the virus.
The order goes into effect Friday and ends on Jan. 4.
Those exempt from the order include medial professionals, first responders, government officials and those involved in essential infrastructure work, among others. Passengers coming into San Francisco International Airport and catching same-day connecting flights are also excluded from the new order, city health officials said.
According to Colfax, the latest health order is needed as the number of intensive care unit hospital beds throughout the entire Bay Area has fallen to less than 15%.
Additionally, he said the city continues to see an unprecedented rise in cases, averaging 242 new COVID-19 cases daily — a 50% increase since the Thanksgiving holiday — and has just 79 ICU beds left.
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