FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 22, 2021
Changes Effective February 26, 2021
Santa Clara County, CA - In light of declining rates of COVID-19 in the community, County officials announced today that they will be updating the County’s Mandatory Health Officer Directives to allow a broader range of outdoor activities effective February 26, 2021 given the lower risk of transmission outside. These changes allow a range of social and recreational outdoor activity to resume, including youth sports, performing arts, and enrichment activities, so long as they occur only outdoors. The change will allow all those activities authorized under the State order, including under the State’s recently updated guidance for Youth and Recreational Adult Sports, to proceed. Restrictions on outdoor gatherings of all kinds will also be relaxed to encourage people not to gather indoors, where there is a much worse risk of transmission.