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San Diegans are clamoring for an end to the now year-old lockdown restriction as coronavirus cases taper off. Still, public health officials have urged restraint as teachers, restaurant workers and others get vaccinated.
That process isn’t moving fast enough for parents, politicians and others who gathered for back-to-back rallies at Waterfront Park in downtown San Diego on Saturday to demand all schools reopen for in-person instruction immediately and Gov. Gavin Newsom be ousted from power.
Several hundred people showed up, many toting American flags and wearing Trump hats and T-shirts, trappings common to most events during the last year that protested the coronavirus lockdown orders.
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California counties move to reopen schools and businesses despite pandemic risks
Despite having the most COVID-19 infections and deaths of any state in the US, a growing number of counties in California are beginning to reopen businesses, schools and other public venues like theme parks and museums.
On Tuesday, seven more counties were lowered from the most restrictive “purple tier” to the “red tier” on the state’s “Blueprint for a Safer Economy.” The “red tier” entails a “substantial” level of risk, with 4–7 new cases per 100,000 people and a 5–8 percent test positivity rate, both of which indicate high levels of community transmission of the virus. The counties which have entered the red tier include San Francisco, Santa Clara, Napa, San Luis Obispo, Lassen, Modoc and El Dorado.