Gavin Newsom’s government has announced another change in California’s reopening plan as COVID-19 cases climb to a new high.
In August, the state moved away from the “watch list” system to detect coronavirus trends to a four-tiered, color-coded classification system that would determine which provinces could proceed with the reopening of businesses. In December, Newsom announced a local home order, which imposed stricter restrictions on large parts of the state. The stay-at-home orders were lifted on January 25th.
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With the stay-at-home orders lifted, the state returns to the four-tier reopening system. The four levels are yellow, orange, red and purple. Yellow indicates minimal COVID-19 distribution and reopens almost all indoor businesses (as long as the physical distance and face covering requirements exist). Press means that there is a widespread COVID-19 transmission in the country and almost all businesses have to keep indoor operations closed or strictly restricted.
Look at the map below to find out where your country is located and read on to learn what can and cannot open in each color code category.
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How a province is classified depends on the ICU capacity, the number of new daily cases of coronavirus and the positive percentage of the test. This is how it breaks:
- Stay-home order (blue): Regions with remaining ICU capacity below 15%
- Widespread (press): provinces with more than 7 daily new cases per 100,000 inhabitants or more than 8% positivity
- Significant (red): 4 to 7 daily new cases per 100,000 inhabitants or 5-8% positivity
- Moderate (orange): 1 to 3.9 daily new cases per 100,000 or 2-4.9% positivity
- Minimum (yellow): Less than 1 daily new case per 100,000 or less than 2% positivity
Each color code has a different set of rules regarding who may do business and who may not reopen, whether they may open indoors or outdoors and in what capacity they may function. Here’s how to set it up by category:
PRESS
- Hair Salons: Indoors Open with Adjustments
- Retail: indoors with a capacity of 25%
- Shopping centers: 25% indoor and food courtes closed
- Nail salons: open indoors with adjustments
- Electrolysis: open indoors with adjustments
- Personal care services (body wash, etc.): Open inside with changes
- Tattoo and piercing: open indoors with adjustments
- Museums, zoos and aquariums: outdoor only
- Places of Worship: Indoors open with 25% capacity
- Movie Theaters: Outdoors Only
- Hotels: open with edits
- Gymnasiums: outside only
- Restaurants: outside only
- Wineries: outside only
- Bars, pubs and taverns: closed
- Family entertainment centers: just outside, such as mini golf, batting cages and kart racing
- Card rooms: outside only
- Non-essential offices: work remotely only
- Professional sports: no live audiences
- Schools: must remain closed
- Theme parks: must remain closed
RED
- Hairdressers: Indoors open with adjustments
- Retail: open indoors with a capacity of 50%
- Shopping centers: inside with 50% capacity and limited food courts
- Nail salons: open indoors with adjustments
- Electrolysis: open indoors with adjustments
- Personal care services (body wash, etc.): Open inside with changes
- Tattoo and piercing: open indoors with adjustments
- Museums, zoos and aquariums: indoor with a capacity of 25%
- Places of worship: Indoors open with 25% capacity or 100 people, whichever is less
- Movie theaters: indoor with a capacity of 25% or 100 people, whichever is the least
- Hotels: open with modifications, plus fitness centers can open at 10% capacity
- Gymnasiums: indoor with a capacity of 10%
- Restaurants: indoors with a capacity of 25% or 100 people, whichever is the least
- Wineries: outside only
- Bars, pubs and taverns: closed
- Family entertainment centers: just outside, such as mini golf, batting cages and kart racing
- Card rooms: outside only
- Non-essential offices: work remotely only
- Professional sports: no live audiences
- Schools: may reopen from personal press level for personal tutoring after two weeks
- Theme parks: must remain closed
ORANGE
- Hairdressers: Indoors open with adjustments
- Retail: open indoors with adjustments
- Shopping Malls: Indoors open with limited food court capacity
- Nail salons: open indoors with adjustments
- Electrolysis: open indoors with adjustments
- Personal care services (body wash, etc.): Open inside with changes
- Tattoo and piercing: open indoors with adjustments
- Museums, zoos and aquariums: indoor with a capacity of 50%
- Places of Worship: Indoors open at 50% capacity
- Movie theaters: indoors with a capacity of 50% or 100 people, depending on the least
- Hotels: open with alterations, plus their indoor pools can open and fitness centers can open 25%
- Gyms: Indoors with a capacity of 25% and can open indoor pools
- Restaurants: indoors with a capacity of 50% or 200 people, whichever is less
- Wineries: indoors with a capacity of 25% or 100 people, whichever is the least
- Bars and breweries: outside only
- Family entertainment centers: indoors with a capacity of 25% for natural distance activities such as bowling and rock climbing walls
- Card rooms: indoors with a capacity of 25%
- Non-essential offices: Encourage telework, but can re-open personal workspaces
- Professional sports: outdoor stadiums can have up to 20% of the audience
- Schools: may reopen from personal press level for personal tutoring after two weeks
- Theme parks: smaller parks can open outdoor attractions for visitors in the province with a capacity of 25% or 500 people, whichever is less
YELLOW
- Hairdressers: Indoors open with adjustments
- Retail: open indoors with adjustments
- Shopping Malls: Indoors open with limited food court capacity
- Nail salons: open indoors with adjustments
- Electrolysis: open indoors with adjustments
- Personal care services (body wash, etc.): Open inside with changes
- Tattoo and piercing: open indoors with adjustments
- Museums, zoos and aquariums: open indoors with alterations
- Places of worship: open indoors with 50% capacity
- Movie theaters: indoors with a capacity of 50% or 100 people, depending on the least
- Hotels: open with changes, plus their indoor pools can open, spas can open and fitness centers can be open at 50%
- Gymnasiums: indoor with a capacity of 50%, plus saunas, spas, steam rooms and indoor swimming pools
- Restaurants: open inside with a capacity of 50%
- Wineries: indoors with a capacity of 50% or 200 people, whichever is the least
- Bars and breweries: indoors with a capacity of 50%
- Family entertainment centers: indoor with a capacity of 50%, including arcades, ice skating, roller skating and indoor playgrounds
- Card rooms: indoor open with 50% capacity
- Non-essential offices: Encourage telework, but can re-open personal workspaces
- Professional sports: outdoor stadiums can have up to 25% capacity
- Schools: may reopen from personal press level for personal tutoring after two weeks
- Theme parks: larger parks can open 25%
This story will be updated as provinces are upgraded or downgraded. Check back for updates.
Consult the California COVID-19 website to locate more specific business reopening from yoga studios to dry cleaners.
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