New Orleans pubs are now banned from serving customers indoors under state coronavirus regulations, after the city’s percentage positive rate fell more than 5% for the second consecutive week.
The new restrictions, which according to city officials will take effect on Wednesday at 23:00, come one day before New Year’s Eve.
Until Wednesday, Orleans Parish was the only congregation in the state with coronavirus numbers that were low enough to continue to serve pubs inside and that allowed them to do so.
But new data released by the Louisiana Department of Health on Wednesday showed that 5.5% of coronavirus tests for Orleans Parish residents for the week ending Dec. 17 returned positive. Last week, 5.3% of the tests in the congregation were positive.
Due to state restrictions on coronavirus, congregations cannot allow pubs inside to serve customers if the congregation’s positivity rate exceeds two consecutive weeks.
Under the rules of the state may still serve pubs and allow goods to sit outside. However, both bars and restaurants must stop serving alcohol at 23:00
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Many congregations in the state have already seen their positive rate increase by more than 5% when Gov. John Bel Edwards set it as the threshold for allowing breastfeeding when he reinstated the state in Phase 2 of its reopening plan. increase in cases of coronavirus last month. Others soon followed, leaving New Orleans – which has closed bars longer than elsewhere in the state – with rates just below the limit that would cause additional restrictions.
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The positivity rate calculated by the state is based on the date a test was taken, rather than when it was reported to the state, and is only reported with a one-week delay. The calculations that the state uses to determine the positivity rate exclude some tests, such as those processed by laboratories, which do not report negative results to the state, which makes it impossible to repeat it with the data provided on the website. from the Department of Health.
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