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Numbers have improved enough for the Marin County Public Health Department to reopen local hotels, motels, and short-term rentals to tourism-based businesses and clients.
The reopening affects all lodging facilities within the county boundaries renting accommodations for 30 days or less, including in West Marin along the Pacific coast. The facilities had been closed to tourism since May 29; only first responders, essential workers, those quarantining or isolating due to COVID-19, residents evacuated due to fire, and homeless or displaced individuals were permitted to stay at the facilities.
In addition to hotels and motels, the short-term rentals allowed to reopen include inns, bed & breakfasts, timeshares, and properties marketed through online rental services such as Airbnb and VRBO.
Based on its COVID-19 rates, Marin has been on the state’s coronavirus monitoring list since July 2, which sets limits on what the County can open and when. Because Marin’s 14-day case rate remained below 200 cases per 100,000 people, Marin is allowed to proceed with reopening short term lodging facilities.
On a statewide basis, California reported the fewest average virus cases and total hospitalizations in nearly two months. The seven-day average for new cases hit 6,662 last Friday. Current coronavirus cases in the state no longer threaten to overwhelm for hospital system.
Epidemiologists, however, caution that a new wave of cases in the fall is likely.
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