Governor Roy Cooper has recently announced that North Carolina’s Phase 3 COVID-19 restrictions will remain in place for the next three weeks.“NC has been in Phase 3 since Oct. 2. That allowed movie theatres, amusement parks, and outdoor venues to open at reduced capacity; it also allowed bars to open (with limited outdoor capacity) for the first time since March. However, COVID-19 trends over the last week have been going in the wrong direction. Cases, hospitalizations, and positivity rates have all increased. That increase in key metrics is not exclusive to North Carolina. In fact, many states are seeing a similar COVID-19 surge.”

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