Alameda County is now moving into the orange tier of reopening.
As expected, the California Department of Public Health moved Alameda from the red to orange tiers on Tuesday, with the county's positivity rate dropping to just 1.1% with an adjusted case rate of 2.6 for every 100,000 residents.
Santa Cruz County has also moved from red to orange.
Last week it looked as though Napa County was also on track to move into the orange tier, but that was stymied by a recent spike in cases.
Among other things, the orange tier allows for higher capacity indoors at restaurants, bars open for outdoor service without having to serve food, gyms open indoors at 25% capacity and non-essential offices can reopen.
Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties are already in the orange tier.
Alameda’s move to orange means that every major outdoor pro sports arena and concert venue in the Bay Area can reopen to one-third capacity on April 1.
Contra Costa, Napa, Solano and Sonoma Counties remain in the red tier.
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