Plymouth is now in the red category of corona virus risk meaning that the town is considered at the highest risk for transmission of the virus and this could have consequences at the state level.
Bobbi Clark has more:
Karen Keane the Director of Public Health explains the implications of the red zone designation:
“If Plymouth stays in the red level for three consecutive weeks our risk level will now be moved to high. When our risk level is moved to high we will no longer be able to partake in the state’s opening plan.”
And what does the opening plan allow?
“Right now the state’s opening plan allows for restaurants to have higher capacity at tables, it’s increased the outside capacity for gatherings to two hundred fifty, and it talks a little bit about schools and remote learning.”
With the loosening of restrictions under the state’s opening plan, Keane says COVID cases are increasing in the 20 and 30 year old group:
“In the past we saw the older population’s number on the rise. That’s not the case any longer. We’re seeing cluster events with young people, 20’s, 30’s, socializing, they’re going to business sites, they’re working together. Through contact tracing, what we’re finding is that there are people out there who are lax in their social activities.”
