All Vallejo residents must now wear masks in public indoors, regardless of their COVID-19 vaccination status.
The Vallejo City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday night to reinstate its indoor mask mandate for residents aged 4 or older. Vallejo is only the second city in Solano County to do so over the last month, following in Benicia's footsteps.
Solano County remains the only one in the Bay Area that has not mandated masks due to the spread of the highly contagious delta variant. The county also has lower vaccination rates than any other in the Bay Area, with 62% of residents older than 12 fully vaccinated as of Wednesday night.
All eight of the other Bay Area counties had fully vaccinated at least 70% of its eligible residents as of Wednesday morning, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nationally, 61.5% of eligible people were fully vaccinated by that time.
The city council will reassess the mask mandate in six weeks after monitoring COVID-19 cases in Vallejo and Solano County.
