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Some casinos in Northern California are continuing with New Year’s Eve party plans, even though the COVID-19 pandemic is raging in the already devastated Golden State.
The popular Cache Creek Casino Resort in Brooks and Thunder Valley Casino in Lincoln reportedly hold exclusive indoor venues, while communities nationwide cancel traditional events celebrating the annual milestone.
The casino galas are possible despite the fact that Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is instituting another home order because it is located on tribal lands, not held by local or state restrictions on the coronavirus.
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“This year’s New Year’s Festival will be like most of 2020: a little different,” reads Cache Creek’s website. “Cache Creek Casino Resort will become a private venue from 12:00 on December 31, 2020. We will reopen to the public on January 1, 2021 at 06:00.”
According to The Sacramento Bee, 6,000 showtimes are expected to accommodate Thunder Valley’s “Farewell 2020” event.
It closes early Thursday for the public and reopens for Friday at 6 p.m.
Most casinos were closed in the spring before re-launching with customers measures such as temperature controls, plexiglass barriers, mask mandates and reduced capacity.
On his Facebook page, Cache Creek wrote that it had to do an instruction for all employees and that it also “conducted ongoing surveillance tests to identify any symptom cases so employees could go home to recover before they could spread the virus.”
The company has a page on its website that outlines its health and sanitation procedures. Thunder Valley does not provide the information.
In July, Thunder Valley employees resigned, citing unsafe working conditions.
Nevertheless, both venues told the Bee that the parties would make up only a fraction of the normal number of New Year’s Eve guests.
That said, the Gratonert Casino Graton Resort Casino has abruptly canceled its 4,000-person party after the event was announced on social media.
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Like most of the states, there was a huge increase in daily cases in Sonoma County.
None of the three casinos immediately returned messages to comment on FOX Business.