Santa Barbara County is potentially one week away from entering the orange tier and further lifting restrictions on businesses and the community.
The county has met the State’s orange tier case rate and positivity rate for one week. If these metrics are met for one more week, the county can move into the orange tier as early as Wednesday, April 21.
The orange tier requires that the county have a case rate of 6 cases per every 100,000 residents and a test positivity rate is under 4.9 percent for two weeks. Santa Barbara County’s adjusted case rate is currently 4.6 cases per 100,000 residents, and its local test positivity is 1.9 percent.