Under Stage 4, officials want residents — vaccinated and unvaccinated — to wear masks at all times in public, and for unvaccinated people to only leave their homes for essential trips.
Just eight days ago, city and county officials raised protocols to Stage 3, urging unvaccinated people to avoid nonessential travel and wear masks when they leave their homes.The announcement comes as the seven-day average of virus hospitalizations in Travis jumped from 63 people on July 4 to 202 on Friday, marking a 203% increase.