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ONTARIO
Local restaurants are gearing up for inside dining on Friday now that Malheur County has jumped to the moderate risk level based on COVID-19 spread from extreme risk, for at least the next two weeks, into March, beginning Friday.
Gov. Kate Brown made the announcement on Tuesday afternoon.
Jason Jungling, co-owner of the Plaza Inn, said that it was good news, and that he had a larger shipment of food coming to be ready. Jungling has been having outside dining outside his business, fighting snow and wind to stay open.
At Bobâs Steak Nâ Spirits in Nyssa, Bob Holmes is busy getting ready to reopen after being closed since Nov, 16, because of Malheur County being put in the âextreme riskâ level which brought a ban on indoor dining. The impact on the restaurant industry has been hard, Holmes said.
Extreme weather blamed for COVID-19 vaccine shipment delays throughout Idaho, eastern Oregon The longer it takes the more impact it will have on our region, one Idaho health district said of the delay. Author: Katija Stjepovic (KTVB) Updated: 10:40 PM MST February 17, 2021
BOISE, Idaho Severe weather across the nation is causing shipment delays of the COVID-19 vaccine to Idaho, officials announced on Wednesday.
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare said that Moderna did not ship any COVID-19 vaccine to the state on Monday or Tuesday and Pfizer only shipped a limited amount of vaccine.
The impact of the shipment delays is being seen across the region.
MALHEUR COUNTY
Tuesdayâs Risk Level Metrics: Schools and Counties report, posted weekly on the Oregon Health Authority website, shows a continuing decline in both new cases of COVID-19 and test positivity rate in Malheur County. During the two-week period from Jan. 31 to Feb. 13, the county recorded 41 new cases and a test positivity rate of 3.9%. The rate of cases was 128 per 100,000 people.
Todayâs report was issued during a âwarning week,â an opportunity for Oregon counties to prepare for the possibility that they might move to a different level of the stateâs risk level system, based on data collected over a two-week period. Changes in risk level occur during âmovement weeks.â
ONTARIO
A first-come, first-serve vaccine clinic will be offered by the Malheur County Health Department from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, and individuals 80 and older will be eligible to get in line. According to the health department, there will be about 400 first doses of the Moderna vaccine distributed to those who show up and are part of phases 1a through 1b group 2.
âWe are currently prioritizing the older adults in our community and will be scheduling a weekly opportunity for them to be vaccinated, as long as vaccine allocations continue,â MCHD Director Sarah Poe said in a news release.