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Declining number of cases eases COVID-19 restrictions in many Oregon counties
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Counties in central Oregon (and many other countries in the state) received good news expected Tuesday morning: Thanks to the drop in cases, all three are moving to lower risk levels on Friday, easing restrictions aimed at reducing the spread of COVID-19.
The official word came in an email sent by Annette Liebe from Governor Kate Brown’s office:
Good news for all of the counties in central and south-central Oregon:
- Crook goes from high risk to lower risk
- Jefferson changes from Extreme to High Risk (indoor dining and other activities allowed with limited capacity)
- Falls from high risk to moderate
- Klamath goes from high risk to moderate
- The lake goes from moderate to low risk
For indoor home gatherings, High Risk allows 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, 10 and 12 people.
For restaurants and bars, indoor capacity in high-risk counties can reach 25 percent maximum occupancy or 50 people, whichever is smaller. For moderate risk this is 50% or 100 person capacity, whichever is smaller, and for low risk it is no more than 50% maximum occupancy, with up to 300 people outside.
For more details on these and other sectors:
These changes will take effect on Friday.
There are also clarifications on what “buffer” / “grace period” / “2 week extension” means to go ahead, effective this week.
In order to relieve a bit of the rocking effect of a county going from lower risk to higher risk, for example, extreme to high to extreme every two weeks, we are adding a 2 week grace period for all risk levels if a county has moved down and then goes back up right away.
This means that if during the last week of movement your county has dropped by one risk level (any risk level) and you need to move up one risk level during the next week of movement, the county will be granted a 2 week grace period to help it is time to stabilize the number of cases and to open and close cases.
This change has an impact this week on two counties, Jackson and Malheur.
Here are the statewide movement week movements, based on the data:
- Baker: from bottom to top
- Benton: extreme to high
- Crook: Highto Lower
- Curry: moderate to high
- Deschutes: high to moderate
- Harney: moderate to weak
- Hood River: moderate to lower
- Jackson: high to high (qualifies for extreme risk but was moved down from extreme during last period of movement)
- Jefferson: extreme to high
- Joséphine: extreme to high
- Klamath: high to moderate
- Lake: moderate to weak
- Route: high to moderate
- Woe: moderate to moderate (qualifies for high but has been moved down from the extreme in the last period of movement)
- Morrow: moderate to weak
- Multnomah: high to moderate
- Tillamook: low to moderate
- Yamhill: high to moderate
A press release is expected Tuesday from Gov. Kate Brown’s office detailing the changes.
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