Nine counties in Oregon have now been ordered by Governor Kate Brown to be further restricted from commerce and social activity on a "two-week pause" starting Wednesday November 11th. Supposedly this will be for two weeks and it comes to be after what only some people are asserting was a significant spike in COVID-19 cases.

The nine counties are:

• Baker (new)
• Clackamas (new)
• Union (new)
• Washington (new)
• Jackson
• Malheur
• Marion
• Multnomah
• Umatilla

These nine Oregon counties will begin a two-week pause of social activities on Nov. 11. Five counties were announced on Friday and four more counties were added to the list shortly after. Counties with a case rate above 200 per 100,000 people over a two-week period, or more than 60 cases over a two-week period for counties with less than 30,000 people have been placed on the pause.

The two-week pause measures include:

• Urging all businesses to mandate work from home to the greatest extent possible.
• Pausing long-term care facility visits that take place indoors to protect staff and residents.
• Reducing maximum restaurant capacity to 50 people (including customers and staff) for indoor dining, with a maximum party size of six.
• Continuing to encourage outdoor dining and take out.
• Reducing the maximum capacity of other indoor activities to 50 people (includes gyms, fitness organizations/studios, bowling alleys, ice rinks, indoor sports, pools and museums).
• Limiting social gatherings to your household, or no more than six people total if the gathering includes those from outside your household. Reducing the frequency of those social gatherings (significantly in a two-week period) and keeping the same six people in your social gathering circle.

Governor Brown has threatened additional restrictions on businesses and individuals in additional counties and further statewide mandates if compliance to her COVID-19 rules are not satisfactorily met.


--Ben Fisher

Post Date: 2020-11-10 10:24:35

Last Update: 2020-11-10 19:30:33