Marin Could Be Bay Area’s 1st County To Go To Yellow Tier: Report

MARIN COUNTY, CA — Marin could be the Bay Area’s first county to move into the less restrictive yellow tier this week, The San Francisco Chronicle reports.

The state’s decision to move Marin to the yellow tier of its Blueprint for a Safer Economy figures to be a close call.

The requires a positivity rate of less than 2 percent and an adjusted case rate of less than 2 per 100,000.

As of Monday morning, the county’s positivity rate is 0.8 percent and it’s adjusted case rate is 1.7 percent according to its coronavirus dashboard.

“We are just teetering on the margin between orange and yellow,” Marin County Health Officer Dr. Matt Willis said Friday according to the report.

“It’s very hard for me to predict at this point where we’ll land on that particular day.”

Under the yellow tier gyms and indoor dining could expand from 25 percent to 50 percent, live events with assigned seating could expand to 67 percent and bars could reopen to 25 percent, NBC Bay Area reports.

Read more in The San Francisco Chronicle