A 30 year-old Oakland man was arrested in Santa Cruz county after reportedly leading law enforcement officers on a high speed chase from the city of Monterey. Xavier Hardy Gonzalves was booked into Monterey County Jail on charges related to the chase, and also the vehicle burglaries that were why Monterey police officers wanted to arrest him....after he was seen breaking into vehicles in Monterey.
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More vaccination clinics are expected to be opened in Monterey county. That’s because the county has received 20 percent more doses of the Covid-19 vaccine than in past weeks....and 5,000 of them are the new one-shot Johnson And Johnson vaccine.
A spokesperson for the County Health Department said it’s still important to get tested, in-part because it’s important to track the Covid-19 variants.
One of the easiest places to do that is the new drive-thru test location at the south end of the Northridge Mall in Salinas.....at the Madrid Street edge of the parking lot for the old Sears building. The testing company says that Covid-19 test results are generally being provided within 48 hours.
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With Santa Cruz County now in the less restrictive red tier, middle and high school students will return to in-person learning on April 5.
However, before they return to campus, the sixth through 12th-grade students will go through orientation. During orientation, students must familiarize themselves with COVID-19 safety protocols.
Under the plan, school officials say students will come to campus two days a week and be in the classroom. They will then use Zoom to telecommute into class two days a week. All students will Zoom in to class on Mondays.
Once the schools open up, they will be able to keep students in the classroom, even if Santa Cruz County moves back into the purple tier.
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Santa Cruz County has today moved to the less restrictive red tier of the state’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy. Some local businesses have prepared their locations for the possibility of serving more customers indoors.
In the current red tier, these changes are in place:
- Gyms and fitness centers- open indoors at 15% capacity
- Movie theaters- open indoors with capacity limited to 25% or 100 people, whichever is fewer
- Museums, zoos, and aquariums- indoors with capacity limited to 25%
- Outdoor live events- open at 20% capacity starting April 1
- Restaurants- indoors with capacity limited to 25% or 100 people, whichever is fewer
- Retail- capacity limited to 50%
- Shopping centers- indoor capacity limited to 50%
- Amusement and theme parks- open at 15% capacity starting April 15
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