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Marion and Polk counties will stay in Oregon s high risk COVID-19 category
Marion and Polk counties will stay in Oregon’s “high-risk” category for COVID-19 restrictions next week, even if data show they should move back to “extreme risk.”
Gov. Kate Brown has changed the process for counties facing moves back to “extreme risk” to allow a two-week extension, her office said Thursday.
This will allow counties to re-focus efforts to drive back down creeping case numbers, and give local businesses additional certainty on their plans for operating, Brown said. If, at the end of the two-week extension, case rate data still puts the county at extreme risk, the county will move to that level.