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Pueblo business owners frustrated at move to Level Yellow Natalie Chuck and last updated 2021-04-07 20:15:51-04 PUEBLO — Pueblo County is now operating in Level Yellow on the states COVID-19 dial. However, since the county moved to Level Blue two months ago, the states restrictions for each level have changed. "Its been a roller coaster," said Lara Craddock, owner of the paint-your-own-pottery studio Fire Playce. "We dont really know where we fit on the scale. We realize that when people ...

and last updated 2021-04-07 18:37:49-04 JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. – Some bars will have to close and restaurants and gyms will be required to operate at 50% capacity once again effective Friday, due to an increase of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in Jefferson County. “Unfortunately we are slipping in the wrong direction,” said Dr. Dawn Comstock, executive director for Jefferson County Public Health (JCPH), in a news release sent to Denver7 Wednesday. The county reported 142.7...

The numbers released by the CDPHE on April 7, however, reflect 626 active and 3,787 resolved outbreaks, adding up to to 4,413 — a leap of 127 outbreaks, and more than a 69 percent increase in a week, to the highest weekly total since January 27, as the state was working through the remnants of a holiday surge. Given the overall rise, its no surprise that several major outbreak categories saw increases this week. Fresh outbreaks at twelve K-12 schools had been included on March 31; fifteen pop...

The backslide on the dial from Level Blue, where the county had operated since Feb. 6, to Level Yellow means additional restrictions for Pueblo, including increased capacity restrictions on businesses. The move to Level Yellow will result in the following restrictions for businesses that have not been certified through the Pueblo City and County 5 Star Variance Program: Restaurants must now reduce capacity to 50% or 150 people, whichever is fewer. Last call will shift from 2 a.m. to 1 a.m. Non-...

Sharp increases in cases move Pueblo County back to Level Yellow on states COVID-19 dial Zach Hillstrom, The Pueblo Chieftain © Chieftain Photo/Zachary Allen COVID-19 mobile testing is being conducted at the south side of the Pueblo Mall. The backslide on the dial from Level Blue, where the county had operated since Feb. 6, to Level Yellow means additional restrictions for Pueblo, including increased capacity restrictions on businesses. The move to Level Yellow will result in...

Over 30 Colorado Counties Can Have 100 Percent Indoor Capacity Get our free mobile app CBS4 said that there is an update to the dial that allows full capacity indoors, but parties are still restricted to no more than ten people, and those groups must be separated from each other by at least six feet. Right now, Larimer and Weld County are Level Yellow, but have Level Blue business variances. Level Blue counties that have those variances, however, can also have 100 percent capacity. Colorado ha...

Back To Level Yellow: Jeffco Reports Rises In Cases & Hospitalizations CBS Denver 4 days ago Syndicated Local – CBS Denver JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – Starting April 9, Friday, Jefferson County will move to level yellow restrictions on the state’s COVID-19 dial. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment cites a rise in incidence rate, test positivity and hospitalizations. © Provided by CBS Denver (credit: Colorado Department of Public Health and En...

Shutterstock.com The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment released updates to the COVID-19 dial framework April 5 that, among other things, allows nonhousehold members to sit together in seated indoor events in Levels Green and Blue. Key changes in the public health order include: Clarification that 6-foot distancing from nonhousehold members is still a requirement in Level Green. Only unseated, rather than seated, indoor events are subject to th...

K-12 schools and colleges were the sites of one-quarter of new COVID-19 outbreaks over the past week and a half, and also home to nearly one-third of all active outbreaks, according to El Paso County data. An outbreak at Discovery Canyon Campus, a K-12 school in District 20, was reported by El Paso County Public Health on March 24, involving eight cases. An outbreak at the dining hall at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs was reported by the county health department on March 27, inv...

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