“We’re not there yet and the variants make it particularly concerning,” Jha said. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University School of Public Health, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “We know that we can expect to see some increases in cases this month, but with vaccinations and continued safeguards we expect that later in the spring that those cases will come down,” the mayor said Monday, before reminding residents to “get vaccinated as soon as you have the opportunity.”īowser is one of many local and state leaders to ease restrictions, though holding on to precautions is still a crucial part of the fight against the virus, Dr. Tourists walk at a pier to get on a boat to Cozumel Island, in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, on March 3, 2021, amid the coronavirus pandemic (Photo by Daniel SLIM / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images) Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty ImagesĬoronavirus and travel: Everything you need to know She is also loosening many restrictions beginning May 1, including allowing seated live entertainment indoors at 25% capacity, and recreation centers, libraries, museums and galleries and non-essential retail will be able to operate with 50% capacity indoors or outdoors. In Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser is calling for residents to get vaccinated as soon as they have the chance. Some states have begun making plans for a return to normalcy. One of the few remaining states that hadn’t, Oregon, said Tuesday it would do so on April 19. Speaking at the White House, Biden said that 150 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been administered within his first 75 days in office, in line with a stated goal of 200 million shots by his 100th day in officeīy Monday night, most states already had planned to open eligibility to everyone 16 and older by April 19. President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he is moving up his deadline for states to make all American adults eligible for a vaccine to April 19, instead of the previous May 1 goal.
Restrictions ease with increased vaccinations That restriction will remain in place until October 1. The World Health Organization last year advised governments not to reopen until test positivity rates were 5% or lower for at least 14 days.Ĭalifornia has no plan to impose a vaccine passport plan system, but some sectors, such as large conventions with more than 5,000 people, will be required to demonstrate that all attendees are either vaccinated or tested, officials said. The US test positivity rate averaged 5.71% over the seven days, as of Saturday, US Health and Human Services data show. Newsom boasted Monday that California has the lowest Covid-19 positivity rate in the nation at 1.7%, far from its peak of 17.1% in early January. The state averaged more than 2,700 new cases over the last week – roughly the same average from two weeks ago, but way below a peak average of about 46,000 new daily cases back on December 21, Johns Hopkins University data show. Test positivity rate much lower in CaliforniaĬases in California are down sharply from the winter, though the decline has leveled off in recent weeks. Health officials will use science and data to guide the reopening, and variants will be closely monitored, Ghaly said. If the supply isn’t there, we may make some tweaks to that June 15 date,” he said, adding that “necessary precautions” would also be taken if Covid-19 hospitalizations rise. “We’re looking at the supply and availability of vaccines. Ghaly, too, said the date could be adjusted.
“We have to really make sure that we don’t drop our guard down,” Yasmin told CNN on Tuesday.Īs part of the June 15 reopening, Ghaly said, California will abandon its four-tier system that helps determine how open a county could be based on metrics like case rates and positivity rates. Seema Yasmin, an epidemiologist and CNN medical analyst, noted that California is waiting – more than two months – before fully reopening and that any sour circumstances before then still could change the state’s plans. “Looking 10 weeks out,” Newsom said, “our expectation is … everybody that would want the vaccine will have the opportunity to receive a vaccine.”Ĭalifornia’s announcement comes as some health experts have asked states to delay reopening so that more people can be vaccinated to fight off the spread of more-contagious variants, which they say is contributing to rising cases in parts of the US.ĭr. The state’s return to normal is subject to ongoing mask wearing and ongoing vigilance, Newsom said, along with a continued supply of vaccines. The latest on the coronavirus pandemic and vaccinesĬalifornia’s mask mandate, however, would remain in place at least “in the short run,” Gov. This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (orange)-also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19-isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells (gray) cultured in the lab.
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