UNION COUNTY â Even as the tide of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ebb across Oregon and locally, Union County will remain under the stateâs most stringent public health measures â as it has since mid-November â until at least Feb. 11.
When Gov. Kate Brown earlier this week announced the update to county risk levels, Union County missed the mark to drop into more lenient restrictions. The county needed to have recorded fewer than 60 new COVID-19 cases and less than 10% overall test positivity during the two-week period from Jan. 10-23, but recorded 98 new cases and 9% positivity during that time, according to data from the Oregon Health Authority.