The order goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday and comes less than a week after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reversed its indoor mask policy.
San Francisco and Bay Area residents will once again be required to wear face coverings in indoor spaces, regardless of vaccination status, amid a surge in coronavirus cases. Health officials from Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Sonoma and the city of Berkeley discussed the new COVID-19 health guidelines during a press conference on Monday. «We’re taking this action today in calling for mandatory indoor masking for all residents in public settings because we’re all seeing a sharp increase in COVID cases and hospitalizations in our jurisdictions, particularly among unvaccinated individuals,» said Sonoma County Health Officer Sundari Mase. The mask mandate will go into effect Tuesday at 12:01 a.m. The announcement comes less than a week after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC) reversed its indoor mask policy as Delta variant cases of the coronavirus spike nationally.
