“Yes, COVID-19 is still with us,” Supervisor Hilda Solis said. “No, we don’t want to abandon those tools that got us to this place … but with effective vaccines and te…
The board voted unanimously in support of Supervisor Janice Hahn’s motion, which will end the proclamation of a local emergency and the proclamation of a local health emergency on March 31. The board’s decision came on the day theHahn noted in her motion that the emergency declarations “saved lives and protected the health of county residents.
Supervisor Kathryn Barger said the county is “no longer at that point of needing the same level of emergency response” due to the virus. Lifting the emergency declarations does not automatically mean that all COVID-related restrictions will immediately go away. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said last week her agency will be reviewing existing health officer orders, noting that some of the requirements in them were enacted under the county’s emergency declaration, but others were not.
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