Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement For the first time since it began lifting stay-at-home restrictions earlier this month, San Diego County has hit one of three COVID-19 triggers that require public health officials to re-examine their previous decisions to reopen a range of businesses and activities after months of forced inactivity under COVID-19 shut-down orders.At an impromptu press conference held Thursday afternoon, county officials announced that eight community outbreaks had occurred in the seven-day period from Thursday, June 11, through...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement For the first time since it began lifting stay-at-home restrictions earlier this month, San Diego County has hit one of three COVID-19 triggers that require public health officials to re-examine their previous decisions to reopen a range of businesses and activities after months of forced inactivity under COVID-19 shut-down orders.At an impromptu press conference held Thursday afternoon, county officials announced that eight community outbreaks had occurred in the seven-day period from Thursday, June 11, through...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement As local leaders announced seven additional COVID-19 related deaths and 110 new cases Thursday, it was clear the region will not be able to enter a new business reopening fast lane now available to communities with low levels of novel coronavirus activity.Gov. Gavin Newsom said during his daily briefing Thursday that an initial swath of designated retail establishments — those selling everything from books to sporting goods — will be able to begin making curbside sales and deliveries directly to their customers...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement As local leaders announced seven additional COVID-19 related deaths and 110 new cases Thursday, it was clear the region will not be able to enter a new business reopening fast lane now available to communities with low levels of novel coronavirus activity.Gov. Gavin Newsom said during his daily briefing Thursday that an initial swath of designated retail establishments — those selling everything from books to sporting goods — will be able to begin making curbside sales and deliveries directly to their customers...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement A group of thousands took to the streets of downtown San Diego and marched through Hillcrest and North Park Thursday, as local protesters rallying against the killings of unarmed black men and women by police officers carried into a seventh day.The march began in the evening outside San Diego police headquarters on Broadway and 14th Street and headed northwest toward Hillcrest, with participants chanting, “No justice, no peace!” and “Black Lives Matter.”Some shouted, “Abolish police.”On social media, the event was...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement A group of thousands took to the streets of downtown San Diego and marched through Hillcrest and North Park Thursday, as local protesters rallying against the killings of unarmed black men and women by police officers carried into a seventh day.The march began in the evening outside San Diego police headquarters on Broadway and 14th Street and headed northwest toward Hillcrest, with participants chanting, “No justice, no peace!” and “Black Lives Matter.”Some shouted, “Abolish police.”On social media, the event was...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement At a press conference Wednesday, new San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria announced he has signed an executive order that will result in more enforcement of health orders. The order will go into effect just before midnight today. He also urged people not to gather for New Years Eve celebrations. Advertisement“I have ordered the San Diego Police Department and asked the City Attorney to pursue fines and potentially other enforcement action against public nuisances who choose to endanger the lives of others and blatantly and...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement At a press conference Wednesday, new San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria announced he has signed an executive order that will result in more enforcement of health orders. The order will go into effect just before midnight today. He also urged people not to gather for New Years Eve celebrations. Advertisement“I have ordered the San Diego Police Department and asked the City Attorney to pursue fines and potentially other enforcement action against public nuisances who choose to endanger the lives of others and blatantly and...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement Well, that was close.San Diego County narrowly remained in the second-most-restrictive level of the state’s reopening system in the latest report from the California Department of Health Tuesday. San Diego received an adjusted score of 7 cases per 100,000 residents, the limit for remaining in its current tier, color-coded red. If not for another week of robust testing, the unadjusted result would have started the two-week process of falling to the most-restrictive purple level in which coronavirus transmission is...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement Well, that was close.San Diego County narrowly remained in the second-most-restrictive level of the state’s reopening system in the latest report from the California Department of Health Tuesday. San Diego received an adjusted score of 7 cases per 100,000 residents, the limit for remaining in its current tier, color-coded red. If not for another week of robust testing, the unadjusted result would have started the two-week process of falling to the most-restrictive purple level in which coronavirus transmission is...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement As expected, state officials announced that they removed San Diego County from the state’s COVID-19 watchlist Tuesday, a move that was telegraphed one day earlier by local leaders.The action, which came as local doctors were adjusting to new testing guidance from the county, starts a 14-day countdown during which the region must avoid crossing any of six thresholds that, if they persisted for three days in a row, would land the region back on the list. Provided San Diego’s daily COVID-19 numbers remain below...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement As expected, state officials announced that they removed San Diego County from the state’s COVID-19 watchlist Tuesday, a move that was telegraphed one day earlier by local leaders.The action, which came as local doctors were adjusting to new testing guidance from the county, starts a 14-day countdown during which the region must avoid crossing any of six thresholds that, if they persisted for three days in a row, would land the region back on the list. Provided San Diego’s daily COVID-19 numbers remain below...WW…