Under the new directives, which authorize status changes more gradually, a county must remain in a current tier for a 21-day period before the county will advance to the next tier, in order to account for the COVID-19 incubation period and fully measure potential increases or decreases in infections. This new blueprint represents a departure from the state’s previous approach, in which counties were placed on the state’s monitoring list based on positive test rates, hospitalization trends and deaths, and many businesses were directed to be either open or closed based on whether or not the county was on the list. In this new blueprint, a county may advance through the tiers-up or down-based on the county’s case rates and test positivity rate. The new four-tiered, color-coded blueprint announced today provides additional guidance to counties as they reopen business sectors that previously remained closed. Importantly, the monitoring list will no longer dictate counties’ reopening as of Monday, August 31, 2020, which is the date the new blueprint takes effect. In counties on the state’s previous “ monitoring list,” additional closures have been required. While some industries have continued to operate with modifications, such as outdoor dining and even patio haircuts, other businesses have been closed for nearly six months. On Friday, August 28, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a new and simpler four-tiered classification system, the Blueprint for a Safer Economy to evaluate regional and business sector health risk and guide counties as they reopen businesses closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.īusinesses across the state have largely been closed since the Governor issued the first Stay-at-Home Order on March 19, 2020, and additional restrictions were subsequently put in place in July.
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