California gov issues ‘hard close’ to Orange County beaches

Officials in the U.S. state's Orange and Ventura Counties had allowed access to their beaches last weekend, prompting families and groups to head to the ocean.The crowds on the beaches put at risk California's progress in slowing the advance of the novel coronavirus, Newsom said.Newsom on Thursday said, "We're going to do a hard close in that part of the state, just in the Orange County area."The announcement came after a memo was sent on Wednesday by the governor's office to California's police