SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- San Francisco officials on Thursday shared a path towards lifting the indoor mask mandate as soon as next week.
According to Mayor London Breed and the city health department, indoor masking requirements will be lifted on October 15 in specific limited settings, as long as COVID-19 vases and hospitalization rates remain stable or decline.
"These settings include offices, gyms, and fitness centers, employee commuter vehicles, religious gatherings, and indoor college classes or other organized gatherings of individuals who meet regularly, not exceeding 100 people," the news release said. "People in these settings may remove their masks if the employer or host of the gathering can control access to the setting and verify 100% full vaccination of everyone in the setting. The employer or host must also ensure proper ventilation, no recent COVID-19 outbreaks, and children under 12 and guests are not present, among other safety measures."
Indoor masking continues however in places like retail stores, and other shared indoor areas accessed by the wider public, San Francisco officials said. This includes common spaces like building elevators, lobbies and restrooms.
People also still must wear masks inside bars and restaurants except when actively eating or drinking.
Bay Area health officials joined together to come up with a plan to lift indoor mask mandates in other situations as well, as long as it doesn't impede with state and federal masking rules.
The counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Sonoma will lift the indoor masking requirement in more public spaces when:
- The jurisdiction reaches the moderate (yellow) COVID-19 transmission tier, as defined by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), and remains there for at least three weeks; AND
- COVID-19 hospitalizations in the jurisdiction are low and stable, in the judgment of the health officer; AND
- 80% of the jurisdiction’s total population is fully vaccinated with two doses of Pfizer or Moderna or one dose of Johnson & Johnson (booster doses not considered)
OR
Eight weeks have passed since a COVID-19 vaccine has been authorized for emergency use by federal and state authorities for 5- to 11-year-olds
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