The number of COVID patients in Orange County hospitals fell from 127 to 110 this week and the number of those in intensive care units decreased from 25 to 23 (as of Wednesday, April 21, 2021). So what does this all mean? Currently, Orange County is in the orange (moderate)tier which allows many local Aliso Viejo businesses to be open indoors with restrictions. 
If the numbers keep trending in the right direction, Orange County is on the path to move to the least restrictive yellow tier in the near future. According to numbers released Tuesday, the county’s weekly averages for adjusted daily case rate per 100,000 residents improved from 3 last Tuesday to 2.8. To graduate into the yellow tier, the case rate must get below 2 per 100,000 population.
If the number of cases continue to drop, Orange County could see even looser restrictions for businesses in the yellow tier. Here’s what it could mean for Aliso Viejo, per state guidelines:
Orange Tier (current):
- Hair salons: open indoors with modifications
- Retail: open indoors with modifications
- Malls: open indoors with limited food court capacity
- Nail salons: open indoors with modifications
- Electrolysis: open indoors with modifications
- Personal care services (body waxing, etc.): open indoor with modifications
- Tattooing and piercing: open indoors with modifications
- Museums, zoos and aquariums: open indoors at 50% capacity
- Places of worship: open indoors at 50% capacity
- Movie theaters: open indoors at 50% capacity or 200 people, whichever is fewer
- Hotels: open with modifications, plus their indoor pools can open and fitness centers can open at 25% capacity
- Gyms: open indoors at 25% capacity and can open indoor pools
- Restaurants: open indoors at 50% capacity or 200 people, whichever is fewer
- Wineries, breweries and distilleries: open indoors at 25% capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer
- Bars: outdoor only
- Family entertainment centers: open indoors at 25% capacity for naturally distanced activities like bowling and rock climbing walls
- Cardrooms: open indoors at 25% capacity
- Non-essential offices: encourage telework but can reopen in-person work spaces
- Professional sports: outdoor stadiums can have audiences up to 33% capacity
- Schools: can reopen for in-person instruction after five days out of the purple tier
- Theme parks: can reopen at 25% capacity
- Live performances: outdoor only at 33% capacity (allowed indoors at limited capacity starting April 15)
Yellow Tier:
- Hair salons: open indoors with modifications
- Retail: open indoors with modifications
- Malls: open indoors with limited food court capacity
- Nail salons: open indoors with modifications
- Electrolysis: open indoors with modifications
- Personal care services (body waxing, etc.): open indoor with modifications
- Tattooing and piercing: open indoors with modifications
- Museums, zoos and aquariums: open indoors with modifications
- Places of worship: open indoors at 50% capacity
- Movie theaters: open indoors at 50% capacity
- Hotels: open with modifications, plus their indoor pools can open, spas can open, and fitness centers can open at 50% capacity
- Gyms: open indoors at 50% capacity, plus saunas, spas, steam rooms and indoor pools can open
- Restaurants: open indoors at 50% capacity
- Wineries, breweries and distilleries: open indoors at 50% capacity or 200 people, whichever is fewer
- Bars: open indoors at 25% capacity
- Family entertainment centers: open indoors at 50% capacity including arcades, ice skating, roller skating, and indoor playgrounds
- Cardrooms: open indoors at 50% capacity
- Non-essential offices: encourage telework but can reopen in-person work spaces
- Professional sports: outdoor stadiums can have audiences up to 67% capacity
- Schools: can reopen for in-person instruction after five days out of the purple tier
- Theme parks: can reopen at 35% capacity
- Live performances: outdoor only at 67% capacity (allowed indoors at limited capacity starting April 15)
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