Riverside County will move into a less-restrictive tier in the state’s coronavirus reopening framework, a shift that allows more businesses to reopen and loosens restrictions on others as the county’s COVID-19 metrics improved, county officials said Tuesday morning, Sept. 22.
Dr. Cameron Kaiser, the county’s public health officer, confirmed the county’s move into the red tier during the Riverside County Board of Supervisors meeting.
The county had been in the purple, or most restrictive tier, of the “Blueprint for a Safer Economy,” California’s color-coded, four-tier system that allows different levels of reopening based on a county’s positivity rate — the rate at which COVID-19 tests come back positive — and its rate of new coronavirus cases.
Red tier status will allows gyms, places of worship, restaurants and movie theaters to resume limited indoor operations. Many churches and eateries had moved outdoors, sometimes meeting and eating under tents.
Many Riverside County cities have tried to help businesses weather the closures by allowing them to serve customers outside on sidewalks and even in the street, where the risk of infection, experts say, is far less than inside buildings.
The Riverside City Council recently opened a way for gyms and churches to exercise and worship in city parks.
With the change, eateries may offer indoor dining, but are limited to accommodating 25% as many patrons as their buildings can hold, or 100 people, whichever is fewer.
Similarly, houses of worship can return to indoor services and movie theaters can begin showing films with a maximum attendance equal to 25% of their capacity, or 100 people, whichever is fewer.
Gyms and fitness centers may reopen under the red tier rules, too. However, their buildings may be filled only to 10% of capacity.
The shift the red tier means that the county’s coronavirus risk level is considered “substantial” rather than “widespread.”
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
The Link LonkSeptember 23, 2020 at 12:01AM
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