Home » Santa Clarita News » Coronavirus » California Curfew In Place For Counties In ‘Purple Tier,’ Including Los Angeles County
California gov-gavin-newsom coronavirus

California Curfew In Place For Counties In ‘Purple Tier,’ Including Los Angeles County

A month-long California curfew is set to be put in place starting Saturday for counties in the “purple tier” of the state’s reopening protocol, which includes Los Angeles County.

In light of an “unprecedented, rapid rise” in COVID-19 cases across California, Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Thursday announced a limited Stay at Home Order requiring generally that non-essential work, movement and gatherings, according to the office of California Governor Gavin Newsom.

The order is set to take effect at 10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, and remain in effect until 5 a.m. Dec. 21.

During that time, residents are still able to go to the grocery or drug store as well as walk around their neighborhoods and get take-out from a restaurant, according to the state.

California Curfew

It is similar to the Stay at Home Order put in place back in March, but applied only between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., and only applies to purple-tier counties that are seeing the highest rates of COVID-19 positive cases and hospitalizations, according to the governor’s office.

“The virus is spreading at a pace we haven’t seen since the start of this pandemic and the next several days and weeks will be critical to stop the surge. We are sounding the alarm,” Newsom said. “It is crucial that we act to decrease transmission and slow hospitalizations before the death count surges. We’ve done it before and we must do it again.”

See Related: Highest One-Day Coronavirus Cases Reported In Los Angeles County Since Pandemic Began

This limited Stay at Home Order is designed to reduce opportunities for disease transmission, according to state officials.

State officials say that activities conducted between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. are often “non-essential and more likely related to social activities and gatherings that have a higher likelihood of leading to reduced inhibition and reduced likelihood for adherence to safety measures like wearing a face covering and maintaining physical distance.”

“We know from our stay at home order this spring, which flattened the curve in California, that reducing the movement and mixing of individuals dramatically decreases COVID-19 spread, hospitalizations, and deaths,” said California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly. “We may need to take more stringent actions if we are unable to flatten the curve quickly. Taking these hard, temporary actions now could help prevent future shutdowns.”

COVID-19 case rates increased by approximately 50 percent in California during the first week of November. As a result, Newsom and California’s public health officials have announced a list of measures to protect Californians and the state’s health care system, which could experience an unprecedented surge if cases continue their steep climb.

See Related: New Business Restrictions Discussed By Los Angeles County Leaders

On Monday, the state pulled an “emergency brake” in their “Blueprint for a Safer Economy,” putting more than 94 percent of California’s population in the most restrictive tier. State officials say that they will reassess data continuously and move more counties back into the purple tier, if necessary.

California is also strengthening its face-covering guidance, requiring individuals to wear a mask whenever outside their home, with limited exceptions.

Additionally, the state issued a travel advisory late last week, along with Oregon and Washington, urging people entering the state or returning home from travel outside the state to self-quarantine to slow the spread of the virus. The travel advisory urges against non-essential out-of-state travel, asks people to self-quarantine for 14 days after arriving from another state or country, and encourages residents to stay local.


Sponsored Articles


Do you have a news tip? Call us at (661) 298-1220, or send an email to [email protected]. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Report a typo or error, email [email protected]

KHTS FM 98.1 and AM 1220 is Santa Clarita’s only local radio station. KHTS mixes in a combination of news, traffic, sports, and features along with your favorite adult contemporary hits. Santa Clarita news and features are delivered throughout the day over our airwaves, on our website and through a variety of social media platforms. Our KHTS national award-winning daily news briefs are now read daily by 34,000+ residents. A vibrant member of the Santa Clarita community, the KHTS broadcast signal reaches all of the Santa Clarita Valley and parts of the high desert communities located in the Antelope Valley. The station streams its talk shows over the web, reaching a potentially worldwide audience. Follow @KHTSRadio on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

KHTS AM 1220 & FM 98.1 - Santa Clarita Radio - Santa Clarita News

California Curfew In Place For Counties In ‘Purple Tier,’ Including Los Angeles County

45 comments

    • Good find Arthur. Key takeaway – “The CDC’s best estimate is that if you are under 49, your chance for surviving Covid – if you get it – is 99.92 percent. Even for those over 70, the survival rate is 94.6 percent.

      Forty percent who get it don’t even know they have it.”

      But good news, watch everything magically open back up when Biden is inaugurated. I believe their plan is to make things worse until then so we can all be so thankful to him when he is in. Just watch.

      • See, this is what happens when people don’t listen and poo-poo the facts given them. Some dummies (probably brainless Trump followers) don’t even acknowledge they have it on their dying bed even AFTER they have been positively diagnoses with the COVID! Too bad there’s no cure for stupid! They’d need millions of doses for all the ignorant idiots walking around! We were warned about this, but STILL some people can’t be bothered to listen and do the right things! Almost like they DESERVE getting it and dying from it! Gotta thin the herd and dispose of them somehow! Nature don’t mess around! As for Biden opening everything up, don’t hold your breath! I think he will do the opposite and close down MORE! Even before he’s inaugurated, we’re gonna have the total shut-down, in as little as a couple of weeks from now! He wants to get serious about getting rid of this virus, as opposed to Chump, who would rather ignore it and do NOTHING at all and just let thousands die, while he tries to come to terms of being the LOSER that he is! All he has cared about his whole life is about HIMSELF! Honestly, I wish he would’ve DIED of it! Yep, that’s how I feel! Oh well, soon we all can forget all about the worst president this country has EVER had and move on, being positive, and knowing Biden is a good man who wants the BEST for all Americans! Certainly, this is the best thing to happen in 4 LONG YEARS! ?

        • Wow another tolerant left sheep I see.

          You are disgusting

          • How many “Gavin coming out of the water”posters does this guy have in his bedroom?He’d throw his back out to be the first one diving to the ground to polish Gavin’s Bruno Maglis.

        • Am, your are one Sick person, the hate, the…. how do sleep at night,
          I know,
          I know….
          You sleep alone…………………..
          Sad.

          • Can’t stand the truth Pshit? I know you’re so used to being fed lie after lie and can’t tell the difference! YOURE the sick sheep! Drank so much cool-ade in your cult, after all! Well, that’s over now and you have to deal with it! Don’t forget—-keep taking your psych meds! You know you always get like this when you stop, as you’re a full-blown nut-case! A bona-fide 5150 case if there ever was one! Look whose sleeping alone! No one wants to sleep with someone that wears a strait-jacket to bed! If anyone’s sad, it certainly YOU! In more ways than one! ?

        • Hey Arn,
          Who do you blame for all the deaths, at a higher rate, in other Countries that bad orange man doesn’t preside over? Who mobilized companies to make more PPE’s per capita than the US? Who has more hospital capacity? Who stripped away needless regulation that enabled pharma to develop multiple 95% effective solutions in record time? You watch way too much MSNBC. Your hero Cuomo is literally losing control in NY by following the same policies Biden wants to implement nationally. Science has proven it will not help, it will hurt.

          • Guess what, Clown! The US has more cases AND more deaths than ANY other country in the world! Who else hasn’t done ANYTHING about the situation in their country and just let thousands DIE and not give a crap at all??! Thinks it will just go away! “Oh, it’s under control and will be over soon!” “We’re rounding the corner!” “Inject bleach, that helps!” ? You can’t be serious! Who else has stripped away NEEDED regulations to actually HELP their people up and down the list??! The studies you speak of may or may not be accurate at all, either, since what, 15,000 people in that study? Too small to be really accurate. Keep drinking Pshits cool-ade! Your stupidity shows big-time! You’re as stupid as he is, whose name speaks for itself! Bunch of sick-in-the-head LOSERS. That’s what you are!

          • You realize you’re losing your mind, right? Get back on your meds. Please

          • Just to be clear, that comment is directed at Get_CA_Sane. You are absolutely bonkers and have been losing it more and more every day. Get a grip.

          • just to remind you of a fact:

            Since announcing promising early results from the trial last week, Pfizer has repeatedly and publicly emphasized its independence from Operation Warp Speed while Trump and his allies have tried to take credit for the work.

            Get_CA_Sane is a total crackpot

          • Shadow,
            First they weren’t, then they were, no Politics here guy,

            Real Money
            Published Jun 04, 2020 | 07:47 AM EDT
            Warp Speed 5 Vaccine Candidates,
            Moderna (MRNA)
            AstraZeneca (AZN)
            Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
            Merck (MRK)
            Pfizer (PFE)

            The New York Times
            Published Nov. 9, 2020 Updated Nov. 18, 2020

            Dr. Jansen said on a Sunday TV news show, “We were never a part of Warp Speed,”
            “We have never taken any money from the U.S. government, or from anyone.”
            However, the next day Monday, a spokeswoman for Pfizer clarified that the company “is” part of Operation Warp Speed as a supplier of a potential coronavirus vaccine.
            The data released by Pfizer Monday was delivered in a news release, “not” a peer-reviewed medical journal that Dr. Jansen was participating in.

            Fact is, there are many crackpot on this thread,
            It’s just a matter of what degree

      • You absolutely nailed it.
        Unfortunately, people like “Arn” exist; mindless sheep that believe anything told to them by their overlord, CNN. It is too bad people like this cannot take the facts they’re given and use their own discernment as to what extent they will follow guidelines.
        It is sad to see this level of fascism rising up among these people. “Arn” is the perfect example of the degradation of both society and freedom.

        • Fascism, Socialism, Marxism, you’re all like a broken record of horrible appliance of words without definitive examples.

          By the way, p s hiett, thank you for the info, but….
          Pfizer agreed to “sell” the drug to the US Government. Yes, what’s the point of making a product you don’t sell it. However, Operations warp speed was NOT responsible for “developing” the drug.

          I still know Get_CA_Sane is unraveling more and more everyday. Not quite like Rudy Giuliani talking garbage with bad make up dripping down his face, but give it some time.

          Mindless Sheep… you’re fighting for the right to get people sick.

        • Isn’t it ironic that the crazy sheep from the right do the EXACT things YOU complain about! Try looking in the mirror and see who you REALLY hate!

      • Wait, 5 percent of our over 70 population in la county is 50,000 dead (20m, about 5 percent over 70, 5 percent of that).. and that’s just ONE PART of the death toll that would occur.

        What a lovely person you are.

    • McClintock is very sane, rational, smart, patriotic Public servant!

  1. Thank goodness Gavin’s businesses will get to stay open so he can afford the new mansion at taxpayer expense.

  2. The Calfornia Communist Democrat party just returned from a taxpayer funded, 4 day trip to Maui Hawaii. San Diego or any other beach area wasn’t good enough for them. There motto is “do as I say not as I do.” Newsom was also caught without a mask or physical distancing at the French Laundry Restaurant in Napa, CA. Somehow this guy has a 60% + approval rating by the California voters. If he looked like Danny De Vito what would his rating be? Wake up people and don’t forget these politicians work for us, not the other way around.

  3. I had a dream that John Wick paid this slimy eel like clown a “visit”.Very disappointed in the barking dogs that woke me up before i had a chance to see the ending.

  4. Says the guy who went to an indoor restaurant for a party, photos show him without a mask like everyone else in the photo. Lawmakers had a nice taxpayer trip to Hawaii .
    Epic fail mr governor .. epic fail.

  5. Hypocrite much? Bite me Newsom. Nobody cares what you say any longer. You, sir, are in contempt of court. You have lost what little respect you ever had when you were caught keeping your winery open while other businesses were forced to close this past summer and then again when you attended an INDOOR party without masks, without distancing, with more than 3 family members or whatever your psycho rules are…then you lied about it until photos came out. It’s time for WE THE PEOPLE to stand up in civil disobedience and take back our lives. If you can shop at walmart safely, you can do anything!!

  6. Kim, let me educate you! Newsom’s winery wasn’t closed because it’s in Napa, Cal.
    Napa County isn’t on the states’ monitoring list! Counties on that list are the ones that the state is concerned about rising COVID-19 infections and hospital beds being filled with sick patients! For instance, on July 3rd, Napa’s health department reported 32 new COVID-19 cases for a total of 376 cases, with four deaths. By comparison, Kern County had more than 5000 cases and 70 deaths! Now you can finally put that thinking to rest! See, it helps to actually know what you’re talking about before ranting about things you’re not informed about! LOL! ?Arn

  7. Stop it your embarrassing yourself.You’ve obviously gone your whole life being told what to do,when and how to do it so this is the result of never having to think for yourself and you take your leaders at their word.Questioning authority is healthy not to mention you can’t expect people who’ve been on their own and done quite well to all of a sudden live the way you and those that think like you do-scared and waiting for their next orders.Tonight try sleeping with your nightlight off or if you can’t sleep go for a late night walk around the neighborhood without your mask on and notice there’s a world out there just waiting to be explored you’ll find it’s liberating.

  8. You gotta fight, for your right, to spread Covid…

  9. We should be able to take our leaders at their word, John.

  10. If you believe anything newsom says you are a weak minded human. This nut job needs to be removed and removed for good. He has done nothing but lie, cheat, and steal from us. If any one in california has seen enough of that bs he puts out then sign that recall list. If you are ok with his lying cheating and stealing then good luch for the next two years. He is a dik-tator trying control us. We control him that is you money at the dirty laundry and winery, and his kids private school.WAKE THE HELL UP. And HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all who will celebrate the way it is meant to be.

  11. JHC you snowflake Trump-a-holics have lost your minds.

    • Yes, I see that in the future. Trump-a-holic meetings. Hello, My name is ___________(majority of this comment section). Let’s see, somewhere around 2013 I got real heavy into Trump. Before I knew it I didn’t know how to think or talk about anything else unless Trump or Sean Hannity said so. Didn’t matter what the truth or science said, it didn’t matter, in Trump I trusted. I found myself so liberated by this movement. Trump provided me no reason to hide my blatant racism, disregard for others, especially the less fortunate. I actually believed Trump cared about the middle class. By the time 2020 came around, I was so into Trump I lost my friends, people avoided me and no one took me seriously.

      • Johnny & Aren’t take over advantage of legalization of Dope! They probably have ilk in Oregon who are still rioting & are in process of legalization of heroin, Meth, etc. so the followers/sheeple can indulge in making them more stupid & zombie like with their socialist/communist thoughts/lifestyles . Poor excuses of human beings!

        • Get back Jojo (name that tune)…

          If anyone needed to smoke a joint it’s Jojo. I’d suggest sour diesel, always.

          • I think JoJo would prefer Gelonade. It’s a perkier high with fruity after taste and a nice mellow buzz

          • Jojo, pShit, and Dufus are the biggest nut-case morons that post here. Everyone knows that. No amount of weed can help them since they’re already on psychotic drugs! They are obviously too far gone. Imagine if you were mentally handicapped already, and then had to deal with the self-loathing, the depression, anxiety, the overwhelming anger, and being labeled a LOSER that being a Republican and a Trump fan is right now! That’s what they are going through. They are sick, and I feel sorry for them. I couldn’t deal with that if I was THEM. Still, I give no quarter to them, as stupid is stupid! They could give out Starbucks cards for every one you take out! Conversely, the only other solution for weak-minded cult members like these! Jonestown-ring a bell?! You already know they hav no problem drinking cool-ade! ?

      • Johnny U regardless of your political beliefs if you lost friends over that they probably weren’t your friends to begin with and that’s on them not you.Time to get new friends or tell the old ones to take it or leave but it’s not on you.

      • Johnny Utah. Cool stage name. I bet you use it on women you are trying to hook up with before the flip you the middle finger. All truth aside, that was a nice fictional story you posted. Have you thought about writing children’s books?

  12. Geez Ray, sounds like you’re going to need a meeting… Vaya con Dios.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

About KHTS Newsroom

KHTS FM 98.1 & AM 1220 focuses on Santa Clarita news, traffic, weather, sports, and also plays music. Bringing you SCV breaking news first and keeping you up to date with Santa Clarita events.