Will Bay Area mask mandates remain in place or tighten now that omicron is here? Here’s what officials say - San Francisco Chronicle

Officials in San Francisco, where the first case of the new, highly transmissible variant in the country was confirmed on Wednesday — in a vaccinated traveler who returned to the city after a trip to South Africa — said all mitigation measures, including the universal indoor mask mandate, will stay in place indefinitely.

Susan Philip, the San Francisco health officer, in an interview.

Matthew Willis, health officer for Marin County, the first in the region to lift the indoor mask mandate.

Bay Area county health departments are urging residents to get vaccinated and boosted as soon as possible.

At this time, there are no planned changes to the regional health order issued in August that includes an indoor mask mandate for all residents in eight of the nine Bay Area counties.

(Solano County was the sole county to not issue a new masking order, and Marin dropped its mask mandate under the criteria outlined by government officials.)?