Business drop reduces COVID-19 restrictions in many Oregon counties
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Provinces of Central Oregon (and many elsewhere in the state) received good expected news Tuesday morning: thanks to declining case numbers, all three are moving to lower risk levels on Friday, weakening the restrictions aimed at limiting. the distribution of COVID-19.
The official word comes in an email sent by Annette Liebe of Gov. Kate Brown:
Good news for all provinces in Central and South Central Oregon:
- Crook moves from high risk to lower risk
- Jefferson moves from Extreme to High risk (indoor dining and other activities are limited at limited capacity)
- Adjust from high risk to moderate
- Klamath moves from high risk to moderate
- More moves from moderate to lower risk
For indoor events, High Risk can allow up to six people, moderate risk eight people and lower risk 10 people, with a recommended limit of 14 households. For outdoor gatherings, the recommended limits are eight, ten, and twelve people.
For restaurants and pubs, the indoor capacity for high-risk provinces is a maximum occupancy of 25 percent or 50 people, whichever is smaller. For moderate risks it is 50 percent or 100 people, whichever is smaller, and for lower risk, the maximum occupancy may not exceed 50 percent, with up to 300 people outside.
For more information on the and other sectors:
These changes take effect Friday.
There is also clarity on what the “buffer” / “grace period” / “2 week extension” means to move forward, this week effectively.
To give some relief from the linkage effect of a country moving from lower risk to higher risk, for example every two weeks extreme to high to extreme, we add a grace period of two weeks for all risk levels if ‘ a country moves down and then goes upright again.
This means that if your country has dropped from a risk level in the last week (any risk level) and will move data to a risk level again in the next movement week, the province will have a grace period of 2 weeks to help with time to stabilized cases and cases open and closed.
There are two counties affecting this change this week, Jackson and Malheur.
Here are the nationwide movement week movements, based on the data:
- Baker: Lower to High
- Benton: Extreme to high
- Crook: Highto Lower
- Curry: Moderate to high
- Delay: high to moderate
- Harney: Moderate to Low
- Hood River: Moderate to Low
- Jackson: High to High (qualifies for extreme risk, but was moved from extreme in the last movement period)
- Jefferson: Extreme to High
- Josephine: Extreme to High
- Klamath: High to moderate
- More: Moderate to low
- Job: High to moderate
- Malheur: Moderate to moderate (qualifies for a high, but was moved from extreme in the last movement period)
- Tomorrow: Moderate to low
- Multnomah: High to moderate
- Tillamook: lower to moderate
- Yamhill: High to moderate
A news release is due to appear Tuesday from the government of Kate Brown’s office outlining the changes.