Level 1: Stay at Home
Everyone was required to stay at home except for grocery shopping, exercise and necessary activities. Only critical businesses were open.
Level 2: Safer at Home and in the Vast, Great Outdoors
While we are all still safer at home, we are also able to practice greater social distancing in our great outdoors than in confined indoor spaces.
Level 3: Protect Our Neighbors
Local public health agencies have the ability to contain surges in cases and outbreaks through testing, case investigation, contact tracing, isolation, quarantine, site-specific closures, and the enforcement of public health orders.
51,756
cases
602,296
people tested
1,756
deaths due to COVID-19
532
outbreaks
Press release
New guidance released to help schools respond to COVID-19 cases and outbreaks
This case and outbreak guidance, in addition to the school opening guidance, CDE’s toolkit for the 2020-21 school year, and guidance from local public health agencies will provide districts with the information they need to start the school year in a way that makes sense for their local communities.
Press release
State partners with universities and wastewater facilities to track COVID
Research shows that people can shed the virus even before showing symptoms. Monitoring for the virus in wastewater can possibly inform communities whether there will be an outbreak a couple of days to a week in advance.