5 CA Counties Allowed To Resume Indoor Dining, Gyms, Worship

CALIFORNIA — Gyms, restaurants, nail salons, worship houses and more have been cleared for indoor operations in Amador, Orange, Placer, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties as of Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom said.

The five counties all moved into the second tier of the state's four-tiered COVID-19 risk system. Previously, those counties were in tier one, or the purple tier, indicating widespread risk. Tier two, or the red tier, represents substantial risk.

Fourteen counties are now in the red tier. The state is monitoring another seven counties that may be downgraded in the next week, Newsom said.

"There's ... a lot of progress that's been made in the state of California, getting that [COVID-19] positivity rate down to 3.8 percent," Newsom said during a Tuesday press conference. "But a point of caution ... three-day holiday weekends have not been advantageous in terms of the mitigation of the spread of this virus."

Counties in the red tier may reopen the following businesses and services indoors, with modifications:

• shopping centers (50 percent capacity; closed common areas and reduced-capacity food courts)
• restaurants (25 percent capacity)
• fitness centers (10 percent capacity)
• places of worship (25 percent capacity or 100 people — whichever is fewer)
• nail salons
• massage facilities
• museums (25 percent capacity)
• zoos (25 percent capacity)
• aquariums (25 percent capacity)
• movie theaters (25 percent capacity or 100 people — whichever is fewer)

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Should a county stay in the red tier for two weeks, schools may consider reopening for in-person instruction.

View the full list of what's open and closed here.

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