In the penultimate weekly update of the state’s COVID-19 reopening roadmap, four more counties moved into the least restrictive yellow tier. The tier system is slated for retirement on June 15.
Thirty-five of California’s 58 counties are now in the orange tier.is slated for retirement
on June 15, when state officials say they will lift coronavirus-related capacity restrictions and physical distancing requirements for attendees, customers and guests at almost all businesses and other institutions, and allow people who are fully vaccinated to go without masks in most situations. “Though it is only two weeks until full reopening, every day matters for our businesses,” Ventura County Executive Officer Mike Powers said in a statement Tuesday. “Expanded customer capacity will help impacted businesses. We appreciate the hard work of our community members in getting us to this point.”Clearing that hurdle is a vital development as the stateThe progress, however, comes alongside a significant drop in the number of people seeking their first vaccine shot.
At the peak, providers statewide were administering about 400,000 vaccine doses per day. Over the last week, an average of about 124,000 shots have been given daily,
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