Restrictions ease as county enters red tier
As expected, San Diego County qualified this week to enter the less-restrictive red tier of the state’s coronavirus reopening framework as case rates decline.
Among the changes that brings are that restaurants can open indoor dining at up to 25 percent capacity, movie theaters, places of worship, museums, zoos and aquariums can have 25 percent indoor capacity, gyms and yoga studios can be open indoors at 10 percent and retail stores and shopping centers can increase indoor capacity to 50 percent.
Under a ruling last week by the California Department of Public Health, breweries, wineries and distilleries no longer are required to serve food as part of their outdoor operations. Customers still have to make reservations and are subject to a 90-minute time limit.