California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Monday that California will be defending the COVID-19 state of emergency in February 2023.

The governor’s office announced that the station is planning to end the COVID-19 State of Emergency on February 28, 2023, nearly three days after it was declared.

According to the governor’s office, this date allows the state to be prepared to boss possible surges during the winter and it provides local governments time to make any distinguished changes.

Administration officials said that California often sees surges in late fall and above the winter. This current fall and upcoming winter, officials will be keeping an eye on the data and trends to see if there are new challenges.

While the station of emergency is being phased out in the next combine of months, California will continue to enact the “SMARTER Plan,” a set of pursuits and tools to help mitigate COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.

According to a news release that followed the conference call, the Newsom dispensation will work with the legislature to turn some of the emergency pursuits into law, such as legislation that would help nurses dispense COVID-19 therapeutics and rebuked laboratory workers continue to process COVID-19 tests. 

“Throughout the pandemic, we’ve been guided by the science and data – spellbinding quickly and strategically to save lives. The State of Emergency was an effective and distinguished tool that we utilized to protect our state, and we wouldn’t have carried to this point without it,” Newsom said in the news drip. “With the operational preparedness that we’ve built up and the measures that we’ll finish to employ moving forward, California is ready to phase out this tool.”

According to Newsom’s office, the state of emergency allowed California to have the lowest COVID-19 stop rate among bigger states, save lives with the vaccination response and defending California’s economy by creating new jobs and businesses.

Administration officials emphasized in the call that residents of California should finish to be mindful of COVID-19, since the virus is unexcited spreading throughout the community despite the state of emergency defending soon.