Beginning at 5 p.m. on Friday, March 24th, some places in North Carolina will be able to open at 100% capacity, including museums, aquariums, retail businesses, and salons.
During a COVID update on Tuesday, Gov. Roy Cooper also announced that restaurants, breweries, wineries, amusement parks, gyms, and other recreation establishments will be able to have up to 75% capacity indoors and 100% outdoors.
Additionally, as part of Executive Order 204, bars, conference centers, sports and entertainment arenas, and reception venues will be allowed to increase capacity up to 50% indoors and outdoors.
Also on Friday, the state will fully lift the 11 p.m. curfew for on-site alcohol consumption.
The mass gathering limit that covers other gatherings will be increased to 50 people indoors and 100 outdoors.
According to Cooper, over recent months, North Carolina has experienced an improvement in key COVID-19 metrics, including sustained declines in the number of COVID-19 daily diagnoses, the percent of total COVID-19 tests that are positive, the number of emergency department visits that are due to COVID-like illnesses, and the number of COVID-19 associated hospitalizations.
“In addition, North Carolina is rapidly expanding its capacity to vaccinate individuals. Due to public health measures taken within the state, enhanced knowledge of the COVID-19 virus by public health experts, and the persistence of North Carolinians in adhering to executive orders and public health guidance, the state is in a position to further relax restrictions, while still continuing with the “dimmer switch” approach in reopening the state.”
The vaccination of North Carolina residents will continue to play a key role in the further easing of COVID restrictions. The state’s vaccine dashboard indicates that more than 2.6 million people have received at least the first dose. More than 10,000 Davie County residents are now at least partially vaccinated.
As of March 17th, members of Group 4, people with high-risk medical conditions or who live in certain congregate settings, are now eligible for vaccination. Groups 1 -3 (healthcare workers and long-term care staff and residents, older adults, and frontline essential workers) remain eligible and are encouraged to get vaccinated. To check your eligibility click here.
In Davie County, announcements about who is eligible for each clinic will be provided here or by calling 336-754-6750 after 3:00 PM on Mondays.
Davie County Health and Human Services offers first-dose drive-thru vaccine clinics at Davie County Community Park, 151 Southwood Drive, every Friday from 10 a.m – 2 p.m. (weather permitting). Please note that there will be no clinic on Friday, April 2 because of the Easter Holiday.
Second dose vaccine clinics are held at the Park on Wednesdays from 1 – 4:30 p.m.
The vaccine paperwork is available here and at the vaccine clinic site the day of.
You can learn more about Davie County’s COVID response here or visit the Davie County Health Department’s Facebook page for additional up-to-date information.
North Carolina’s COVID Information Hub can be found here.