{"id":1817,"date":"2021-10-18T14:37:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T21:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2022-10-10T15:44:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T22:44:09","slug":"ventura-county-health-officer-extends-indoor-face-covering-order-and-issues-criteria-for-lifting-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/ventura-county-health-officer-extends-indoor-face-covering-order-and-issues-criteria-for-lifting-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Ventura County Health Officer extends indoor face covering order and issues criteria for lifting order"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Download article:<\/strong> English<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0En espa\u00f1ol<\/a>
Public Health Order Extension (10\/18\/21):<\/strong> English<\/a> | En espa\u00f1ol<\/a>
Public Health Order (8\/20\/21):<\/strong> English<\/a> | En espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>

Ventura, CA \u2013 The Ventura County Public Health Officer has extended the indoor mask order, requiring all individuals, regardless of vaccination status, to wear face coverings when indoors in public settings, with limited exceptions. \u201cThe order is necessary to reduce the rate of community spread and to reinforce the need for safe interactions. We will continue to monitor transmission rates, hospitalizations, deaths and vaccination rates throughout the County,\u201d said Public Health Officer Doctor Robert Levin.

The order will continue to be in effect until:<\/p>

(1) Ventura County reaches the moderate (yellow)\u00a0 COVID-19 transmission tier<\/a>, as defined by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (a daily case rate of 7 per 100,000), and remains there for at least three weeks; and
(2) COVID-19 hospitalizations in the County are low and stable, in the judgment of the Health Officer; and
(3) 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 or 80% of the County\u2019s eligible population is fully vaccinated with two doses of Pfizer or Moderna or one dose of Johnson & Johnson (booster doses not considered); Or until the Order is extended, rescinded, superseded or amended in writing by the Health Officer.<\/p>

The order directs that face coverings must be worn over the mouth and nose \u2013 regardless of vaccination status \u2013 in all indoor public settings, venues, gatherings, and workplaces, including but not limited to offices, retail stores, restaurants and bars, theaters, family entertainment centers, conference and event centers, and government offices serving the public.<\/p>

Performers at indoor live events such as theater, opera, symphony, and professional sports and persons speaking before a live audience may remove face coverings while actively performing or participating, though such individuals should practice physical distancing as much as practicable. Further amendment and clarification to the Order may be set forth in the County of Ventura\u2019s FAQs.\u00a0 Due to the quickly evolving nature of local health conditions and State orders, the Health Officer has determined that the public would be best served by utilizing FAQ\u2019s that can be easily accessed by members of the public and quickly updated by the Health Officer as circumstances warrant.\u00a0 Therefore, all FAQs on the County of Ventura website at\u00a0 www.vcrecovers.org<\/a> shall be deemed a directive of the Health Officer.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Download article: English\u00a0|\u00a0En espa\u00f1olPublic Health Order Extension (10\/18\/21): English | En espa\u00f1olPublic Health Order (8\/20\/21): English | En espa\u00f1ol Ventura, CA \u2013 The Ventura County Public Health Officer has extended […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hca","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}