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• Nearly all Californians will be subject to a 10 p.m. Curfew starting Saturday in an effort to curb spiking coronavirus infections, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced Thursday afternoon.
• California will impose ‘limited’ curfew due to COVID-19 surge The order prohibits most nonessential activity outside the home from 10 p.m. In counties in the strictest tier of the.
• Public spaces around the state may have been closed overnight by a statewide curfew this week – but the casinos have stayed open. After being closed for months by COVID-19, casinos around Arizona had just started to reopen when Gov. Doug Ducey on Sunday imposed a statewide dusk-to-dawn curfew in response to protests over George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.

LINCOLN (CBS13) — There are a lot of handles, buttons, and tables to touch if you’re going to gamble at Thunder Valley Casino.

Gavin Newsom issued a curfew Thursday for all counties in the purple tier - including San Diego - due to the rise in COVID-19 cases. In a tweet, Newsom said nonessential work. Under the curfew, restaurants, breweries, bars and non-essential retail businesses must be closed from 10 p.m. Non-essential indoor businesses must also limit capacity to 25%.

It’s why Kioko Martins has her own stash of hand sanitizer and keeps a mask with her.

“I’m ready to go and it’s been a long time I haven’t been out here,” she said.

Dwayne West Jr. keeps his hands away from his face, hat, and mask.

“Just make sure I’m sanitizing and watching what surfaces I touch,” he said.

But even with safety protocols like thermal temperature checks, masks, and hand sanitizer over at Colusa Casino, gamblers are being warned about possible exposure just days after it reopened.

With more casinos reopening in the area, we wanted to know if it’s too soon. We turned to Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, professor of medicine and infectious disease expert at UCLA. He says exposures are more likely to occur indoors and when it comes to casinos specifically they are considered low to medium risk.

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“I don’t think it’s too soon. I think we need California to be back to work and back to school and back to play. The original purpose of shutting down the state was to save the hospitals, the hospitals were saved,” said Dr. Klaunser.

Dr. Klausner says cleaning high-touch surfaces inside casinos is effective and an important way to reduce the further risk of spread. Thunder Valley says a special maintenance team works to disinfect and sanitizing is also done by dealers and team members after every use.

“You’re going to have somebody that it there wiping the slots machines wiping the table games down,” said Doug Elmets with Thunder Valley Casino.

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For the most part, gamblers aren’t too worried.

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“More hand sanitizer, more people be aware of each other,” Martins said.

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“I think if everybody pays attention to doing what is necessary, you know everybody will be clean there won’t be the spread of the virus or anything like that,” said Daryl Zafferano.