Dine-in restaurants, office-based workplaces, car washes, strip malls, pet grooming businesses and outdoor museums can prepare to reopen with restrictions as California moves deeper into phase two of its statewide COVID-19 recovery plan.
Gov. Gavin Newsom made the announcement Tuesday during his press briefing from Sacramento, where he made it clear that this is a statewide modification to the order but that certain counties may not yet be in a place in the pandemic to see such a return to normalcy.
Los Angeles County — the state’s epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis, representing nearly half of all fatalities and positive cases — is one such area.