SACRAMENTO, Calif. - As he had forewarned earlier in the week, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday issued a limited coronavirus crackdown throughout the Golden State, much of which is teeming with new coronavirus cases.The stay-at-home mandate covers regions where the ICU capacity drops below 15%., Newsom said.The order would then last three weeks before officials would reassess whether to lift the mandate, looking at hospital caseloads about a month out from the shutdown, state health officials said. "This is the most challenging time since the beginning of the pandemic," Newsom said. "Lives are in the balance.
Lives will be lost unless we do more than we've ever done."Newsom divided the state into five regions: Northern California, Greater.