Information On Updated Public Health Shelter In Place Order In Los Gatos

Press release from the Town of Los Gatos:

March 31, 2020

On March 31, 2020, Dr. Sara Cody, Santa Clara County Health Officer and Public Health Director announced...

...an updated order to extend the order to shelter in place through May 3, 2020. Additional restrictions were also announced. These actions were taken to further reduce the number of people with whom all individuals come in contact, every day. The more quickly we reduce the number of contacts each of us has, the more quickly and effectively we can “flatten the curve,” reducing strain on the health care system and saving lives.

New restrictions include:

• Use of playgrounds, dog parks, public picnic areas, and similar recreational areas is prohibited.
• Use of shared public recreational facilities such as golf courses, tennis and basketball courts, pools, and rock walls is prohibited. These facilities must be closed for recreational use.
• Sports requiring people to share a ball or other equipment must be limited to people in the same household.
• Essential businesses must develop a social distancing protocol before April 3, 2020.
• Most construction—residential and commercial—is prohibited.
• Essential businesses are expanded to include service providers that enable residential transactions (notaries, title companies, realtors, etc.), funeral homes and cemeteries, moving companies, rental car companies and rideshare services that specifically enable essential activities.
• Essential businesses that continue to operate facilities must scale down operations to their essential component only.

All of the new information can be found on the County Public Health website at: www.sccphd.org/coronavirus. A short, one page summary of the order can be viewed here. A more in-depth, eight page executive summary of the order can be viewed here.

This press release was produced by the Town of Los Gatos. The views expressed here are the author’s own.