CALIFORNIA – Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered that restaurants in all counties across the State of California cease indoor operations in response to the state's surging coronavirus numbers. In addition to restaurants, businesses in other sectors including bars, wineries, tasting rooms, zoos, museums, family entertainment centers, movie theaters, and card rooms must also cease indoor operations, statewide.

What You Need To Know


  • Governor Newsom has ordered restaurants cease indoor operations statewide

  • Other business sectors ordered to cease indoor operations include bars and wineries, movie theaters, zoos and museums

  • The state watch list has been expanded to 30 counties with more widespread closures ordered for those counties

  • Newsom spoke of pivoting from an "on-off" approach to reopening the state to a "dimmer switch" mode

The order is effectively an expansion of the one that had already been in place for the counties on the state "watch list."

Those counties have been handed additional closures with fitness centers, worship centers, offices for non-critical sectors, personal care services, hair salons and barbershops, and malls ordered to close.

The state watch list has also been expanded to 30 counties, encompassing 80 percent of Californians.

Governor Newsom said the state is "moving back into a modification mode of our original stay-at-home order" and spoke of pivoting from an "on-off" approach to reopening the state into a "dimmer switch" mode.

"A dimmer switch goes up and down based on changing conditions, " said Governor Newsom.

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Governor Newsom also provided an update on the state's latest coronavirus case numbers, announcing 23 additional fatalities on Monday.

"This continues to be a deadly disease," said Newsom. "It is currently putting a strain on our hospitals and our ICUs."

The state has been seeing record numbers of infections in recent days, along with increasing hospitalizations. As of Monday, Newsom said 6,485 were hospitalized across the state due to the coronavirus. The seven-day rolling average of people testing positive for the virus was 7.7 percent, Newsom said.

"This virus is not going away anytime soon," Newsom said. "I hope all of us recognize that if we were still connected to some notion that somehow when it gets warm it's going to go away or somehow it's going to take summer months or weekends off, this virus has done neither. You've seen parts of the country with very hot ... weather where you're seeing an increase in positivity rates, an increase in hospitalizations and ICUs. Here in the state of California as we're seeing triple-digit weather in many parts of our state, we're still seeing an increase in the positivity rate, the community transmission. We're seeing an increase in the spread of the virus."

City News Service contributed to this report.