California will reportedly shut all seashores and state parks starting Friday after swells of beachgoers fled to the shore final weekend in defiance of social distancing guidelines.
The state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, will formally announce the choice Thursday, in keeping with a memo outlining the transfer obtained by FOX 11.
“After well-publicized media protection of overcrowded seashores this previous weekend, in violation of Governor Newson’s shelter in place order, the governor can be asserting tomorrow that seashores and all state parks in California can be closed, efficient Friday, Could 1,” mentioned the notification, which was despatched out to all California police chiefs on Wednesday.
Newsom on Monday blasted the beachgoers, singling out those that flocked to Huntington Seaside and Newport Seaside in Orange County.
“This virus doesn’t take the weekends off, this virus doesn’t go dwelling as a result of it’s a stupendous sunny day round our coasts,” the governor mentioned.
Photographs swirled on-line final weekend of the coastal crowds who gave the impression to be flouting the social distancing guidelines as temperatures soared into the 80s on Friday.
One picture reveals a bunch of no less than 5 younger ladies inside six ft of one another on Huntington Seaside. Others present sunbathers sitting so shut their towels contact.
On the north aspect of the seaside, bikers, canines and stroller-pushing {couples} swarmed the boardwalk, in keeping with photographs. Many had been with out masks.
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