With the highest incidence rate of COVID-19 in Colorado, Pitkin County will close indoor dining at restaurants Sunday and move fully into red-level restrictions.<\/p>\n
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Mondays unanimous decision by the seven members of the Pitkin County Board of Health also includes a 50% capacity limit on lodging in Aspen and Snowmass Village and assurances by Aspen Skiing Co. to improve COVID-19 protocols.<\/p>\n
Ski mountains will remain open without a reservation system for the time being, though indoor dining at on-mountain restaurants will cease.<\/p>\n
Weve communicated until our eyes are falling out, said Pitkin County Commissioner Greg Poschman, also a member of the board of health. Yet we still have a lot of people not agreeing with us.<\/p>\n
Its time. We have to do this. Its painful. Its not forever.<\/p>\n
Pitkin County is the first to enter level-red restrictions since Gov. Jared Polis last month allowed counties at level red, including Denver, to move to the less restrictive level orange on the states coronavirus dial. <\/p>\n
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