Virus outbreak leads to curfew in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO – An increase in the number of coronavirus cases will put San Francisco under a curfew effective Monday and trigger other restrictions related to the virus, the city said.

The curfew forces non-essential businesses to close and prohibits members of different households from congregating between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. until December 21, the mayor of London Breed said on Saturday.

San Mateo County outside of San Francisco will also be subject to the same rules after the state of California ranks the two below its most restrictive level of locations based on the spread of the virus.

In addition to the curfew, some domestic businesses will be required to shut down or reduce capacity starting Sunday at noon, Breed said.

“I don’t know how to be clearer – this is the most dangerous time we have experienced during this pandemic,” Breed said on Twitter.

“Don’t travel and get together with others. We need to get this under control now and we cannot afford to let things continue at this rate. “

On Friday, a temporary ban on gatherings of people from different homes, without religious services or protests, was announced for California’s largest city, Los Angeles.

The ordinance affecting the second-largest city in the United States will go into effect Monday and last for at least three weeks, until Dec.20, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said.

California imposed a nighttime curfew across much of the state a week ago, but San Francisco was not affected because it was not at the time ranked among the most restrictive locations in the state.

The United States surpassed 13 million cases of Covid-19 – the highest in the world – on Friday and President-elect Joe Biden warned of difficult weeks before vaccines became widely available.

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