Increase in COVID Cases Prompts California County to Recommend Masks Again

The top health official for a county near Sacramento advised residents to wear masks indoors. No mandate was issued.

A man wearing a mask uses a laptop, in this file photo. Cindy Ord/Getty Images

At least one official in California has recommended that residents wear masks indoors because of an increase in COVID-19 in recent days.

Wastewater data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sept. 4 show that California is seeing “very high” levels of the virus and that all states on the West Coast are at either “high” or “very high” levels.