Gov. Charlie Baker addresses reporters at a State House press conference on June 19, 2020. Photo by Chris Van Buskirk | State House News Service/File

Gov. Charlie Baker announced new measures Monday afternoon that he called “targeted interventions” to curb a week-long spike in the number of COVID-19 cases statewide.

New restrictions include:

• A stay-at-home advisory from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.
• An executive order requiring indoor recreation facilities, casinos, and other entertainment facilities to close at 9:30 p.m. Restaurants will have to stop table service at 9:30 p.m. but will be able to continue carry-out service after that. Alcohol sales must end by 9:30 p.m.
• An executive order reducing the limit of gatherings in private homes to 10 people for indoor gatherings and 25 people for outdoor gatherings. The order will stipulate these gatherings must end by 9:30 p.m.
• An updated mask order that requires everyone over age 5 to wear a face covering in public, eliminating exceptions in Baker’s previous mask order that allowed people to not wear a mask if maintained social distancing.

The orders take effect 12:01 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 6.

“The simple truth is this, but too many people have become complacent in their daily lives. I know it’s hard to hear me say this again and again, but it’s true,” he said.

Baker said the gathering limit was intended to give police, building supervisors and landlords a tool to break up big private gatherings, which he blamed for a rapid increase in new coronavirus cases. Local communities will have flexibility to enforce the orders in different ways but all penalties will be civil in nature, Baker said. The governor articulated a hope that officers and local officials would not have to turn to actual penalties to enforce the orders.

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo announced on Friday that she was cutting her state’s gathering limit from 15 to 10 people, prohibiting spectators at youth sporting events for the next two weeks, curtailing visits at hospitals and nursing homes, and closing indoor athletic facilities for one week. She said Rhode Island was “on a path” to opening a field hospital in the next few weeks, according to WPRI.

State health officials announced they had confirmed 2,431 new cases of COVID-19 in Massachusetts over the weekend. The news follows roughly 1,000 new cases of the disease being reported every day for the last week totaling 12,719 cases, and the identification of 2,945 new clusters – representing two or more infections stemming from a common source – representing 8,208 confirmed cases between Sept. 27 and Oct. 24.

The number of COVID-19 cases has increased 300 percent since Labor Day, Baker said Monday.

“The data points to a clear need to do something about these trends now,” Baker said. “What we should not do is shut down our economy or close down our schools.”

Baker said the state’s public health surveillance data proves that most business and schools have not been principal vectors for COVID-19 transmission.

A new state report found that more than 83 percent of recent COVID cases were deemed to be household exposure, meaning the transmission likely occurred between people who live at the same address and were not linked to a different type of cluster. Another roughly 7 percent of cluster cases were in long-term care facilities.

None of the other 21 setting categories – including K-12 schools, restaurants and food courts, and retail and services – represented even 2 percent of the total confirmed cluster infections over the roughly one-month span, though their shares could increase if close contacts to those who contracted the virus in turn fall ill.

As of Thursday’s town-by-town public health report, nearly all of Eastern and Central Massachusetts, plus nearly the entire Springfield metro area is in the “yellow” or “red” categories measuring greatest risk of COVID-19 transmission.

Baker said he was reluctant to roll back the state’s economic reopening, particularly to keep schools open in order to keep children’s education on track, but stopped short of committing to criteria that would trigger a rollback.

Staff writer James Sanna contributed to this story.