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Rodney Garrick (center) prepares to play at Classic Bowling Center without wearing a mask in Daly City. Sacramento County has become the latest California county to urge all residents to wear face masks indoors as COVID-19 cases rise.
Gabrielle Lurie / The Chronicle
Public health officials from two counties in northern California urged residents this week to wear face covers indoors amid a spike in COVID-19 cases associated with the highly infectious delta variant.
The Sacramento County Health Department pleaded with residents on Thursday to hide indoors in public spaces. Even fully vaccinated people should wear masks indoors in “places where vaccination verification is not required and the vaccination status of others is unknown.”
The county’s daily case rate increased dramatically in less than a month, from 3.8 June 20 to Thursday 10, health officials said in a press release.
Sacramento County currently has 101 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
Yolo County health officials are also calling for fully vaccinated people to wear masks indoors. The county has seen 59 cases of the Delta variant – 76% of the positive samples collected in testing, according to a press release from the county.
Yolo County’s case rate has fallen from 3.9 to 4.8 in the past few days, according to the state’s COVID-19 dashboard.
In late June, Los Angeles County also recommended that vaccinated residents mask indoors.
Annie Vainshtein is a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle. Email: [email protected]. Twitter: @annievain
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