{"id":1832,"date":"2021-08-20T15:10:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T22:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2022-10-10T15:21:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T22:21:27","slug":"ventura-county-public-health-issues-new-health-order-requiring-masking-indoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/ventura-county-public-health-issues-new-health-order-requiring-masking-indoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Ventura County Public Health Issues New Health Order Requiring Masking Indoors"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1832\" class=\"elementor elementor-1832\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-09fab65 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"09fab65\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-417c00b\" data-id=\"417c00b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ac461bc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ac461bc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Downloads:<\/strong> Press Release (<a title=\"Press Release - English\" href=\"https:\/\/vcportal.ventura.org\/CEO\/VCNC\/press_releases\/2021-08-20_vcnc_pr_cov-ph-masking-indoors.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Press Release - English\">English<\/a> | <a title=\"Press Release - Spanish\" href=\"https:\/\/vcportal.ventura.org\/CEO\/VCNC\/press_releases\/2021-08-20_vcnc_pr_cov-ph-masking-indoors_sp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Press Release - Espa\u00f1ol\">Espa\u00f1ol<\/a>) | Health Order (<a title=\"Health Order - English\" href=\"https:\/\/vcportal.ventura.org\/CEO\/VCNC\/press_releases\/2021-08-20_vcnc_pr_cov-ph-masking-indoors_health-order.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Health Order - English\">English<\/a>\u00a0| <a title=\"Health Order - Spanish\" href=\"https:\/\/vcportal.ventura.org\/CEO\/VCNC\/press_releases\/2021-08-20_vcnc_pr_cov-ph-masking-indoors_health-order_sp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Health Order - Espa\u00f1ol\">Espa\u00f1ol<\/a>) | Flyer (<a title=\"Flyer English &amp; Spanish\" href=\"https:\/\/vcportal.ventura.org\/CEO\/VCNC\/press_releases\/2021-08-20_vcnc_pr_cov-ph-masking-indoors_flyer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">English &amp; Spanish<\/a>)<\/p><p>Ventura, CA \u2013 Ventura County Public Health has issued a new health order requiring all individuals, regardless of vaccination status, to wear face coverings when indoors in public settings, with limited exceptions. This order will take effect at 11:59 p.m. Friday, August 20, 2021. Businesses and other public entities have until 11:59 p.m. on Monday, August 23, 2021 to comply. The order will be in effect until 11:59 pm on September 19, 2021, or until it is extended, rescinded, superseded, or amended by the Health Officer. \u201cAs of today, we reached a rate of 28 cases per 100,000, a 40% increase. I hope that this order will increase mask usage in Ventura County. I expect that this will have a beneficial effect on the increase in COVID-19 infections we are seeing,\u201d said Public Health Officer Doctor Robert Levin.<br \/><br \/>As of August 20, the unadjusted case rate per 100,000 population over 1 day is 28, overall testing positivity over the past 7 days is 7.7% and the HPI lower quartile testing positivity rate over the past 7 days is 9.9%. Public Health reports 598 new COVID-19 cases and 3,995 new tests. There have been three additional deaths including a 98-, 76- and 87-year-old females.<\/p><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><p>Individuals, businesses, venue operators, hosts, and others responsible for the operation of indoor public settings must:<\/p><ul><li>Require all patrons to wear face coverings for all indoor settings, regardless of their vaccination status; and<\/li><li>Post clearly visible and easy-to-read signage at all entry points for indoor settings to communicate the masking requirements to all patrons. Signage is provided by Ventura County Public Health at <a title=\"VCRecovers.org\" href=\"https:\/\/www.venturacountyrecovers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.vcrecovers.org<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><p>This health order aims to reduce community transmission of COVID-19. Health officials are concerned by the substantial levels of increased community transmission, especially among unvaccinated people. In part, this is due to the widespread COVID-19 Delta variant, which is substantially more transmissible than previous forms of the virus. Recent information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also indicates that even fully vaccinated individuals can in some cases spread the Delta variant to others, and so indoor use of face coverings provides an important added layer of protection.<\/p><p>\u201cMasking indoors must again become a normal practice by all, regardless of vaccination status, so that we can stop the trends and level of transmission we are currently seeing,\u201d said Public Health Officer, Doctor Robert Levin. \u201cWe continue to urge all eligible residents to get vaccinated to protect themselves and their family and friends. Becoming fully vaccinated against COVID-19 remains the best protective action that people can take. It significantly reduces the risk of infection and, for the small number of people that get infected, it reduces the risk of hospitalization and death once you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.\u201d<\/p><p>More information about COVID-19 available at: <a title=\"https:\/\/www.venturacountyrecovers.org\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.venturacountyrecovers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.venturacountyrecovers.org<\/a>.<\/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":"<p>Downloads: Press Release (English | Espa\u00f1ol) | Health Order (English\u00a0| Espa\u00f1ol) | Flyer (English &amp; Spanish) Ventura, CA \u2013 Ventura County Public Health has issued a new health order requiring [&hellip;]<\/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-1832","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\/1832","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=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/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=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}