Coronavirus updates: 84% of California population to go on lockdown Sunday night

More than 33 million people in the state will be affected by the lockdown.

ByMorgan Winsor, Erin Schumaker, Ivan Pereira, and Emily Shapiro
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Last Updated: December 7, 2020, 8:34 AM EST

A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 66.4 million people and killed over 1.5 million worldwide, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

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Here's how the news developed this week. All times Eastern.
Dec 04, 2020, 4:34 PM EST

San Francisco area announces stay-at-home order

Much of the San Francisco Bay Area will soon be under a stay-at-home order.

The order ends indoor and outdoor dining at restaurants, closes hair salons and other personal care services, and prohibits all private gatherings, ABC San Francisco station KGO reported.

The stay-at-home order covers Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Santa Clara, San Francisco counties as well as the city of Berkeley, KGO said.

People walk down a sidewalk in San Francisco, Nov. 30, 2020.
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Most areas will start the stay-at-home order Sunday; Alameda County will start Monday while Marin County will begin Tuesday. The restrictions will last until Jan. 4.

Gov. Gavin Newsom had announced Thursday that a stay-at-home order will go into effect in any region where the ICU capacity falls below 15%. Bay Area officials said they didn't want to wait until numbers fell to 15%, KGO reported.

Dec 04, 2020, 3:11 PM EST

Oregon may see double the case rates by Christmas

In Oregon, modeling shows that case rates will be twice as high by Christmas, Gov. Kate Brown warned.

A record high of 2,100 new cases were reported Friday, Brown said.

Oregon is set to receive 35,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine and 71,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine this month, Brown said. Front-line healthcare workers and long-term care residents and employees are considered first priority; Brown said she anticipates this entire group can be vaccinated by the end of January.

-ABC News' Matthew Fuhrman

Dec 04, 2020, 3:00 PM EST

Nevada to get over 164,000 vaccine doses for December

Nevada is set to receive 164,150 vaccine doses for December, according to the state's Department of Health and Human Services.

An employee opens an ultra-cold refrigerator filled with vaccines against COVID-19 at a secret storage facility in the Rhein-Main area, Germany, Dec. 4, 2020.
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The doses will be used "for hospital staff, skilled nursing facility staff and residents, and other Tier One individuals," the department said.

Dec 04, 2020, 2:22 PM EST

California reports new case record

California reported a new case record Friday with 22,018 more COVID-19 cases.

People shop at the Citadel Outlet mall, as the global outbreak of the COVID-19 continues, in Commerce, Calif., Dec. 3, 2020.
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The state reported an additional 145 deaths.

Across California, 9,948 COVID-19 patients are in hospitals -- an increase of 246 from Thursday.

The 14-day average positivity rate stands at 7.3%.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday that a stay-at-home order will go into effect in any region where the ICU capacity falls below 15%. The two closest regions so far are Northern California, which has 18.6% capacity remaining, and the San Joaquin Valley, which has 19.7% remaining.

-ABC News' Matthew Fuhrman

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