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Fresno County Advances In State’s Tiered COVID-19 Plan, Allowing More Businesses To Reopen

After weeks of improving COVID-19 numbers, Fresno County has advanced to the next tier in the state’s reopening framework known as the Blueprint for a Safer Economy . The county is the first in the San Joaquin Valley to graduate out of the purple tier, the most restrictive level that denotes “widespread” infection, to the red tier, signifying “substantial” infection. As of Sept. 29, the county is reporting 6.2 cases of the virus per 100,000 residents (below the threshold of 7 per 100,000 required for the red tier), and a testing positivity rate of 4.9 percent (which is low enough to qualify for the orange tier, one level beyond red). The designation brings changes to many business and social sectors , including places of worship, gyms, restaurants and movie theaters, which had previously been outdoors-only but are now allowed to operate indoors with reduced capacity. Those businesses that had already been allowed indoors, including hair and nail salons and retail stores, can now
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