Health officials in Alameda County on Thursday announced they will reinstate a mask requirement for most indoor settings due to surging COVID cases.
A release issued by Alameda County Health Care Services announced that the masking requirement would go into effect beginning 12:01 a.m. on Friday, June 3, 2022. Officials noted the new masking mandate does not apply to the city of Berkeley, which is under its own independent local health jurisdiction.
The county health officer noted that COVID-related hospitalizations have more than doubled in the past month due to the spike in cases from the latest omicron variant of the virus. Health officials will continue to monitor COVID cases and hospitalizations to determine when the renewed order can be safely lifted.
Officials said hospitalizations"are also rising after remaining stable during the early weeks of this wave. Daily new admissions of patients with COVID-19 rapidly increased in recent days and now exceed last summer's peak." Given the current upward trend in case numbers, Alameda County officials expect to reach the CDC's"high" COVID-19 Community Level soon.
Even though widespread COVID-19 vaccination, boosters, prior infection and available medications are providing protection against severe illness, the current highly transmissible variant of the virus is circulating at very high levels in Alameda County. Despite those strong protections, such high numbers of infections put more people at risk and in the hospital.
"Unfortunately, COVID has not gone away and once again, we must take measures to protect ourselves, friends and community members, and employees and patrons from this very infectious virus," said Colleen Chawla, director of the Alameda County Health Care Services Agency.
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