As expected, a new county health order went into effect at midnight barring indoor activities for the next three weeks at:
•Dine-in restaurants (outdoor, pick up or drive-through can occur)
•Wineries and tasting rooms
•Movie theaters, family entertainment centers and cardrooms
•Museums and zoos
In addition, all restaurants must close at 10 p.m.
We have an updated list of what’s open and what’s closed in Carlsbad here . You can view the updated county public health order here .
New outdoor options
To help support our local businesses, the city is allowing the temporary expansion of operations onto sidewalks and private parking lots. So far, we have about a dozen in some stage of doing this, and we hope it helps offset some of the business impacts caused by COVID-19.
Triggers for increasing health restrictions
On Thursday I went over the 13 county triggers and the eight state triggers, some of which overlap. For the county triggers, we are exceeding three: number of cases per 100,000 population, number of community outbreaks and the ability to initiate investigations into new cases within 24 hours. Over the past two weeks our overall positivity rate has been increasing toward the 8% trigger. It’s now at 6% (as a refresher, this refers to the number of positive cases as a percentage of the total number of tests completed).
