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Colorado changes COVID-19 dial for public health orders By PATTY NIEBERGFebruary 5, 2021 GMT DENVER (AP) — Colorado will use an updated COVID-19 dial which allows counties to move between public health restriction levels more swiftly, officials said Friday. “When disease transmission is low, there’s ample hospital capacity, we can sustain a lot greater degree of ability to engage in closer one-on-one interactions in the final months of the pandemic,” Gov. Jared Polis said. The state’s amended dial which dictates county-wide restrictions on businesses and gatherings based on new cas...

Denverite, the Denver site! The city will reactivate its emergency operations center to streamline access to vaccines Businesses will also be able to start applying next week for the 5 Star Certification Program. Mayor Michael Hancock runs the mock emergency as he would in the event of a real situation. The Denver Office of Emergency Management practices a worst-case security scenario in their basement offices in the City and County Building, Dec. 15, 2017. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite) Jan. 28, 2021, 3:19 p.m. The city on Thursday provided details about how it’s working t...

Mayor Michael Hancock and a cadre of cohorts revealed that the city is officially back in Level Orange on the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's dial dashboard. If that level can be maintained for seven days, restaurants, gyms and other businesses that meet the standards set by the state's 5-Star Certification Program will be able to operate under Level Yellow standards, which include increasing capacity from 25 percent to 50 percent, among other things. Applications for the 5-Star program will officially open at 10 a.m. February 2, with a soft cap of 500 for the first rou...

– New ​certifications​ granted to businesses – Any complaints received at the county level – Any ​warnings​ issued to certified businesses, and if any certifications have been ​revoked – A business may only receive one warning for non-compliance with certification requirements, and the committee must remove certification for a business that demonstrates noncompliance a second time. – In addition to your current process for accepting and investigating complaints, please ensure that CDPHE’s complaint ​form​ is easily available as part of any print or marketing mat...

Will Denver’s 5 Star Certification Program Save Local Restaurants? The business-variance program could begin pre-certifying area eateries as soon as the first week of February—but increased indoor capacity will have to wait until pandemic metrics go down.Denise Mickelsen •   January 27, 2021 350 for seven days. That’s the magic marker that restaurateurs across Denver County are waiting for, the indicator that the county’s COVID-19 two-week incidence level is low enough, and has remained low enough for seven consecutive days, that they can officially apply for the Denver 5 Star Ce...