Gov. Gavin Newsom's office announced Monday that the state's COVID-19 State of Emergency will officially end on February 28 of next year.
, saying the delay until next year will give the state's health care system any flexibility it still needs for a possible winter surge in cases and hospitalizations, and give everyone enough time to prepare for the phaseout.
Since then, Newsom has used his authority under the emergency declaration to issue 596 orders. Some were small, like delaying deadlines for filing taxes or renewing driver's licenses. But others were life-changing, including issuing a statewide stay-at-home order that caused millions of people to lose their jobs.
"While the threat of this virus is still real, our preparedness and collective work have helped turn this once crisis emergency into a manageable situation," added Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly in the announcement. The formal end of the emergency would not affect public health orders, which are issued by state and local public health officers. That includes a statewide mandate that schoolchildren be vaccinated against the coronavirus — a mandate that has been delayed until next summer at the earliest.
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