California’s health department announced that stay-at-home orders for Southern California and San Joaquin Valley and are being extended indefinitely amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tough restrictions imposed earlier this month on social and economic life were extended in densely populated Southern California—home to more than half of the state’s 40 million people—based on data showing intensive care units there likely to stay filled at or near capacity for weeks to come. Hospital ICUs in San Joaquin Valley have likewise remained for weeks with little or no bed space to spare.
