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Restaurant dining rooms spared in latest health directive but further capacity cuts enacted

Restaurant dining rooms spared in latest health directive but further capacity cuts enacted Shelby County announces safer-at-home order limiting indoor dining By Kendall Downing | December 21, 2020 at 6:03 PM CST - Updated January 5 at 3:31 PM MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The Shelby County Health Department issued its latest directive, number 16, just before the 4 p.m. hour on Monday. A few hours prior, groups of restauranteurs rallied outside the Shelby County Government building after a copy of a Safer At Home order was leaked over the weekend. That order, which the SCHD said was a draft, would have been similar to shutdown measures enacted in the spring and called for eliminating on-site dining at restaurants.

Safer at Home Order Revived, Somewhat, to Shelby County

Listen to an audio version of the story. Starting the day after Christmas, Shelby County residents will be under a Safer at Home order. The new regulations released Monday afternoon by the health department are less wide-reaching than those enacted and subsequently lifted earlier this spring as the coronavirus gained a local foothold.  Under the newest health directive, restaurants can keep their dining rooms open but only at 25 percent capacity. However, officials are discouraging onsite dining because transmission of the virus is so high. Retailers including grocers and gyms will also need to drop their occupancy to 50 percent. “This is absolutely necessary. We’re seeing an unprecedented increase in the number of cases, which is going to lead to an unprecedented number of deaths,” says Dr. Manoj Jain, an infectious disease expert who also serves on the Memphis and Shelby County COVID-19 Joint Task Force. 

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