Coronavirus

Riverside County Public Health officials say nearly half of the county’s coronavirus outbreaks were in grocery stores. Public Health Director Kim Saruwatari told the Board of Supervisors earlier this week that the highest number of coronavirus outbreaks in Riverside County from July to September reportedly stem from grocery stores. Contact tracers found 48 outbreaks during

Case Changes Today Riverside County reported 83 new cases since Wednesday. This brings the total number of cases to 59,488. Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue to update past today) What’s Open In Riverside County? Restaurants indoors (max 25% capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer)All retail indoors (max 50% capacity)Shopping centers

Cathedral City councilmembers authorities the city’s director of emergency service to extend the mask and social distancing mandate through Dec. 31, 2020. The city’s mandate is much like the statewide order which requires people to wear masks in most indoor settings and outdoors when distancing isn’t possible. There are a couple of exceptions to the

Case Changes Today Riverside County reported 232 new cases since Tuesday. This brings the total number of cases to 59,405. Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue to update past today) What’s Open In Riverside County? Restaurants indoors (max 25% capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer)All retail indoors (max 50% capacity)Shopping centers

Governor Newsom signed two new farmworker relief bills this week designed to provide protections for agricultural workers during the pandemic. The two bills, AB 2043 and AB 2165, were authored by Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella) alongside Assemblymember Robert Rivas (D-Hollister). These measures, passing the legislature with bipartisan support, represent the nation’s first legislative package of

Case Changes Today Riverside County reported 241 new cases since Monday. This brings the total number of cases to 59,173. Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue to update past today) What’s Open In Riverside County? Restaurants indoors (max 25% capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer)All retail indoors (max 50% capacity)Shopping centers

California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly will host a video conference to provide an update on COVID-19 in California. The state releases updated statistics every Tuesday on which counties have satisfied the required metric to move into the next tier of California’s COVID-19 monitoring system. You can watch the livestream below starting

Governor Gavin Newsom and health officials said Monday that California is showing signs of a potential new surge in coronavirus cases, adding that a surge could lead to a third shutdown.  Even though hospitalizations statewide have fallen more than 20% and the positivity rate has been low over the past few weeks, officials said they’re

Case Changes Today Riverside County reported 754 new cases since Friday. This brings the total number of cases to 58,932. Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue to update past today) What’s Open In Riverside County? Restaurants indoors (max 25% capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer)All retail indoors (max 50% capacity)Shopping centers

OpenCALNOW, a group of elected leaders from Riverside, Orange, and San Diego counties, held a news conference Monday morning in Riverside to advocate for the safe reopening of all businesses in all three counties. Riverside County District 5 Supervisor Jeff Hewitt, who recently proposed is own reopening plan which will be revisited on October 6,

Riverside County is moving into the second week in the red “Substantial” tier of reopening. News Channel 3’s Caitlin Thropay finds out what is currently keeping us from moving into the next tier and what that next tier would look like. “We’re going in the right direction,” Jose Arballo, the senior public information specialist at

Churches and places of worship were able to open up their doors again for in-person services this weekend. Churches were asked to close indoor services back in July due to a spike in COVID-19 cases. Now that we’re in the red tier of reopening, Riverside churches and other places of worship can reopen indoors at

Movie theaters are once again opening their doors after Riverside County advanced Tuesday to the red tier of reopening. It’s the first time since June film fanatics have returned to see the silver screen, when movie theaters were last shut down due to the pandemic. “Seeing it back at home, it’s just like it’s a