Californians locked down for weeks during the coronavirus pandemic have trickled back to local beaches as the weather warms, prompting Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday to plead for social distancing during a heat wave expected this weekend.
FILE PHOTO: Surfers walk into the Pacific Ocean at sunrise on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, as the global outbreak of coronavirus disease continues, in Huntington Beach, California, U.S., April 22, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo
“But I also think if there is and people aren’t practicing physical distancing, I’ll be announcing again these numbers going back up,” Newsom said, referring to a slight downward tick in new hospitalizations and admissions to intensive-care units. California’s beaches are under a patchwork of state and local jurisdictions, which means some have remained open while others were shut.
This week in Huntington Beach, an Orange County city that has both state and local beaches as well as the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, surfers could be seen in the water on either side of a closed pier as sunbathers watched from the sand and joggers used pedestrian paths.
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