Marin County authorities will suspend indoor dining for at least 3 weeks amid an increase in new coronavirus infections, reversing course one week after giving restaurants the thumbs-up to serve consumers within.
The decision, reliable at midnight Monday, comes days after the state included Marin County to its watch list, which closely tracks counties struggling to secure down on a surge in cases and hospitalizations. The county’s decision was based upon an absence of improvement in case counts, officials said in a release Sunday.
Marin had 2,861 overall coronavirus cases and 21 deaths since Sunday afternoon. That consists of cases at San Quentin State Prison, which remains in the county and represent a minimum of half of Marin’s infections. The current state figures reveal 1,388 prisoner infections and 165 staff infections.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has directed counties on the watch list to reimpose parts of their stay-at-home orders.