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To address the surge in cases that threatens to overwhelm California’s hospitals, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Thursday a strict coronavirus stay-at-home order that would trigger when a region’s intensive care hospital capacity drops below 15%.

On Friday, six Bay Area jurisdictions announced they plan to enact a regional stay-at-home order starting Sunday, speeding up the timeline. The move means the participating Bay Area jurisdictions would be under the state order a couple weeks earlier than they would have been. The Bay Area regional order will be in place until Jan. 4.

Meanwhile, two of California’s five designated regions dipped below their ICU capacity on Friday, which means state officials could impose strict stay-at-home orders on the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California regions as early as Sunday, state officials said Friday night.

Here are key details of both the statewide and regional Bay Area orders:

The California order divides the state into five regions. What are they?

The regions and their counties are:

Bay Area: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma

Northern California: Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama, Trinity

Greater Sacramento: Alpine, Amador, Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, Sierra, Sutter, Yolo, Yuba

San Joaquin Valley: Calaveras, Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, San Benito, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tulare, Tuolumne

Southern California: Imperial, Inyo, Los Angeles, Mono, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura

When will California regions fall under the new order?

The state orders take effect at 12:59 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 5. Regions that have less than 15% ICU availability after that time must implement the orders within 24 hours. Newsom said all regions except the Bay Area will likely fall under the orders “in early December,” though he did not give an exact date.

On Thursday, Newsom said “the Bay Area may have a few extra days,” with current projections suggesting mid- to late December. However, six Bay Area jurisdictions are planning to enact a regional stay-at-home order starting this Sunday, speeding up the timeline.

Orders for the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California regions will take effect at 12:59 p.m. Saturday, state officials said, but a shutdown would happen within 24 hours if the regions stay below the ICU capacity threshold.

What is the ICU capacity in each region right now?

On Dec. 4 the here is where actual ICU capacity stand for each California region, according to the state’s website:

Bay Area: 21.2%

Northern California: 20.9%

Greater Sacramento: 21.4%

San Joaquin Valley: 14.1%

Southern California: 13.1%

How long will the order last?

Newsom said once the order is imposed in a region, it will stay in effect for at least 3 weeks. After that, each region will be assessed on a weekly basis. The order will be lifted when a region’s ICU capacity is projected to meet or exceed 15% within four weeks. Counties in that region then will return to one of the four tiers in the state’s color-coded reopening system, based on their individual case rates and other key indicators.

Where will the Bay Area order apply, and how long will it last?

In the Bay Area, the regional action will apply in San Francisco, Santa Clara, Marin, Contra Costa and Alameda counties, and the city of Berkeley, local health officials announced Friday. Here is a regional timeline of when the order will take effect:

Sunday evening: San Francisco, Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties

Monday at 12:01 am: Berkeley and Alameda counties

Tuesday at noon: Marin County

What will be temporarily closed under the order?

• Bars, breweries and distilleries.

• Wineries.

• All indoor and outdoor sit-down dining.

• Personal care services.

• Hair salons and barbershops.

• Indoor and outdoor playgrounds.

• Indoor recreational facilities.

• Museums, zoos, and aquariums.

• Movie theaters.

• Family entertainment centers.

• Cardrooms and satellite wagering.

• Live audience sports.

• Amusement parks.

What will stay open under the order?

• Schools that are currently open may continue to provide in-person instruction at school sites. They include those that received an elementary school wavier or reopened while their county was in a less restrictive tier. All schools that have not yet reopened may continue to serve small cohorts of students (for example, students with disabilities) in person.

• Child care and pre-K.

• Critical infrastructure.

• Non-urgent medical and dental care.

• Retail (20% capacity indoors).

• Shopping centers (20% capacity indoors).

• Restaurants (takeout and delivery only).

• Offices (remote only except for critical infrastructure sectors).

• Places of worship and political expression (outdoor services only).

• Outdoor recreational facilities (no overnight campground stays).

• Hotels and lodgings (critical infrastructure support only).

• Entertainment production including pro sports (no live audiences; testing protocol and “bubbles” highly encouraged).

The restrictions in the local Bay Area order are the same as those spelled out in the state order.

What else is there to know about the restrictions?

All non-essential travel is restricted statewide. Outdoor exercise is still allowed. The order prohibits private gatherings of any size, closes sector operations except for critical infrastructure and retail, and requires 100% masking and physical distancing in all others.

Grocery stores in much of the Bay Area must reduce the number of shoppers they allow inside a store starting Monday. The orders require grocery stores to reduce capacity to 20% from 50%.

Most Bay Area restaurants will have to close their parklets and other outdoor dining setups by Sunday night.

Anna Buchmann is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: anna.buchmann@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @AnnaBGedit

California election results continue to trickle in, as San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area digest Joe Biden’s victory over President Trump in the presidential race. Beyond the presidential contest, many California propositions and local races still are being closely watched. And many remain too close to call, as vote counting continues across the state and Bay Area.

Among the outcomes: Progressive candidate Connie Chan won the San Francisco District One supervisor race, beating out Marjan Philhour by 123 votes in the city’s closest supervisor race this year. Carroll Fife, the mastermind behind Moms 4 Housing, has unseated two-term City Council incumbent Lynette Gibson McElhaney in a stunning victory.

Here’s a short list of final results on the key races that San Francisco and Bay Area voters are deciding. We’ll be updating this list around the clock as our politics team makes calls.

Note: The Chronicle calls races based on several factors, including the current margin, the estimated number of ballots left to be counted and, in some cases, where those ballots come from. California is accepting mailed ballots through Nov. 20, so for some close contests, final results could take some time to be called following election day.

California Propositions

Prop. 14 — Re-fund the state’s stem cell agency: YES

Prop. 15 — Revise Prop. 13, raise commercial property taxes: NO

Prop. 16 — Lift ban on affirmative action in admissions and government hiring: NO

Prop. 17 — Restore parolees’ voting rights: YES

Prop. 18 — Give vote to 17-year-olds in some elections: NO

Prop. 19 — Let older homeowners keep Prop .13 assessments: Results not called.

Prop. 20 — Expand list of crimes with no early release: NO

Prop. 21 — Loosen state restrictions on rent control: NO

Prop. 22 — Exempt some drivers from gig-worker law: YES

Prop. 23 — Regulate kidney-dialysis clinics: NO

Prop. 24 — Expand state privacy law: YES

Prop. 25 — Uphold state law banning cash bail: NO

California Senate

State Senate District 11 — Scott Wiener is a winner over Jackie Fielder.

State Senate District 15 — Dave Cortese is the winner over Ann Ravel.

San Francisco Propositions (Read more here)

Prop. A — $487 million bond for parks, homelessness and mental health: YES

Prop. B — Split off Public Works’ street cleaning, sidewalk maintenance and sanitation duties into a new agency: YES

Prop. C — Allow noncitizens to serve on boards that advise City Hall: YES

Prop. D — Create greater oversight at the Sheriff’s Department: YES

Prop. E — Do away with fixed police staffing requirement: YES

Prop. F — Business tax overhaul: YES

Prop. G — Allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in local elections: NO

Prop. H — Changes to permitting process for businesses: YES

Prop. I — Increase taxes on property sales valued at $10 million or more: YES

Prop. J — Parcel tax to generate $48 million a year for public school teachers: YES

Prop. K — Authorize 10,000 units of affordable housing: YES

Prop. L — Tax based on top executives’ pay vs. employees’ pay: YES

San Francisco Board of Supervisors (Read more here)

S.F. Board of Supervisors, District One: Connie Chan won the District One supervisor race, beating out Marjan Philhour.

S.F. Board of Supervisors, District Three: Aaron Peskin declared victory. His closest challenger, Danny Sauter, has conceded.

S.F. Board of Supervisors, District Five: Dean Preston won after Vallie Brown conceded.

S.F. Board of Supervisors, District Seven: Myrna Melgar declared victory Wednesday. She said her competitor, Joel Engardio, called her to concede Wednesday morning.

S.F. Board of Supervisors, District Nine: Hillary Ronen had no opposition.

S.F. Board of Supervisors, District 11: Ahsha Safaí is the winner. John Avalos has conceded.

Editor’s note: a previous version of this story prematurely called several of the supervisors’ races.

S.F. Board of Education (Read more here)

Jenny Lam, Mark Sanchez, Kevine Boggess and Matt Alexander have won spots on the SFUSD board.

CCSF Board of Trustees

Incumbents Shanell Williams and Tom Temprano won seats. The two other open seats went to Aliya Chisti and Alan Wong.

Oakland City Council (Read more here)

Oakland City Council, District One: Incumbent Dan Kalb has won after Steph Dominguez Walton conceded.

Oakland City Council, District Three: Carroll Fife unseated two-term City Council incumbent Lynette Gibson McElhaney.

Oakland City Council, District Five: Noel Gallo has won the seat.

Oakland City Council, District Seven: Treva Reid won her father’s seat.

At-large council seat: Rebecca Kaplan declared victory after receiving a call from challenger Derreck Johnson conceding the race.

Bay Area Propositions

Measure RR — A three-county sales tax measure to fund Caltrain: YES

City of Alameda Measure Z — Repeal prohibition against building multifamily housing: NO

Berkeley Measure GG — Tax on Uber and Lyft rides: Results not called.

Berkeley Measure HH — Climate action equity fund: Results not called.

Berkeley Measure II — Replace Berkeley’s Police Commission with a Police Board, create director of police accountability: YES

Oakland Measure S1 — Give civilian-run police watchdog groups more authority: YES

Read our live updating coverage on the election here, and see a full list of national, state and local election results updating in real-time here.