It's official! State health officials have announced that, effective at 12:01 AM on Wednesday morning, Ventura County will move to the Red Tier. So what does this mean? Here's the list of what changes:

For more detailed information about what is allowed to reopen and in what capacities, here are additional resources for you:

You may also call (844) VC-OPENS or E-mail covidcompliance@ventura.org for more information.

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To move ahead to the orange tier, a county must have sufficiently low new COVID-19 cases and sufficiently low positive COVID-19 test rates. Positivity rates for tests in Ventura County are already in orange tier levels, so the limiting factor for us will be the number of new COVID-19 cases each week. Based on current orange tier rules, Ventura County must have two consecutive weeks of a rate of less than 4.0 adjusted new cases per 100K population. Additionally, a county must remain in a tier for a minimum of three weeks before advancing to a less restrictive tier. Thus, the earliest Ventura County could move into the orange tier under current rules is Wednesday, April 7.

Note that the state's COVID Tier rules have changed multiple times. We already know that the the rules will be eased when California has vaccinated 4 million people in health equity areas (California just reached the 2 million mark late last week). When California reaches that mark, the orange tier requirement will ease from less than 4.0 cases perk 100K population to less than 6.0 cases per 100K.

For reference, here are the Ventura County case rates for the past month:

State health officials will continue publishing weekly statistics every Tuesday afternoon at covid19.ca.gov/safer-economy/.

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