By Julia Bertino
More COVID-19 restrictions are loosening in Nebraska on Thursday.
On Wednesday, Governor Pete Ricketts’ office issued a statement saying that Nebraska will further downgrade the state’s COVID restrictions effective at 12:01 a.m. Thursday.
Ricketts office say the move is prompted by the seventh day of COVID-19 patients making up 15% or less of the state’s hospitalizations. That means Nebraska’s Directed Health Measures will move from yellow to blue in the color-coded DHM levels chart. The change relaxes social-distancing and other restrictions since the number of people hospitalized with the COVID-19 has continued to decline.
Rules classified as “restrictions” under previous levels now become “guidance” in the blue level, including: