Orange County Allowed to Reopen Movie Theaters at 25%

Orange County was given the inexperienced gentle on Tuesday to reopen film theaters at restricted capability because the county’s every day new circumstances and positivity fee decreased, permitting the county to maneuver to a unique tier in California’s reopening classification system.

Movie theaters in Orange — in addition to Santa Clara and Santa Cruz — can now open at 25% capability or with a most of 100 folks, whichever is fewer. Indoor eating may also reopen with the identical capability ranges, whereas gyms and different fitness-oriented companies like dance and yoga studios can reopen indoors at 10% capability.

Movie theaters in Los Angeles County, nonetheless, should nonetheless stay closed.

Last month, state officers introduced a brand new color-coded, tiered classification system to assist decide what can reopen in every of California’s counties based mostly on the variety of every day new circumstances per 100,000 residents and the share of optimistic exams.  At the time, the counties that might reopen indoor film theaters included Alpine, Calaveras, Del Norte, El Dorado, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Mariposa, Modoc, Mono, Napa, Nevada, Plumas, San Diego, San Francisco, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Trinity and Tuolumne.

As of Tuesday, Orange County moved from the purple (“widespread”) tier to the pink (“substantial”) tier, that means that for 3 consecutive weeks, the county’s every day new circumstances per 100,000 folks dropped from greater than seven to between 4 to seven and its optimistic take a look at fee dropped from greater than 8% to between 5-8%.