The City Council deliberated at its Wednesday night council meeting and decided to allow Emergency Order 5B to expire on Friday, December 10, 2021 at midnight. This will remove the local indoor mask requirement that mandated all persons to wear a mask indoors regardless of their vaccination status and revert instead to State of California guidelines for wearing masks indoors. The main reasons discussed were that more residents are increasingly being vaccinated and the likelihood of serious illness, hospitalizations, or deaths was significantly lower, especially in comparison to last year’s numbers at this time.
The State of California’s masks guidelines are the following:
Everyone is required to wear masks in the following settings:
- Public transit
- Healthcare settings (including long term care facilities)
- Adult and senior care facilities
- Indoors in K-12 schools, childcare, and other youth settings
- State and local correctional facilities and detention centers
- Homeless shelters, emergency shelters, and cooling centers
Masks are required for unvaccinated people and recommended for everyone in indoor public places, like:
- Retail
- Restaurants
- Theaters
- Family entertainment centers
- Meetings
- State and local government offices that serve the public
See CDPH’s Guidance for the Use of Face Coverings and Face Coverings Q&A to learn more.
