Starting Friday restaurants can operate at 50-percent capacity and bars can open in a limited fashion as the state enters Phase Two. Assistant Health Secretary Doctor Alex Billioux says groups should be seated six feet apart.
“Perhaps sitting all on the same sit of a table at a restaurant, having people sitting on the same side of a different table at a restaurant,” said Billioux.
He notes “high risk” individuals should still treat this as Phase Zero and continue to isolate themselves.
Billioux notes normal bar settings are high risk for COVID transmission so they’ll only be allowed to open at 25 percent capacity with a six-foot separation between groups.
“You are essentially turning the interior space of that bar into similar to what restaurants were doing as far as having to be spaced and having to be seated,” said Billioux.
Bars with LDH food permits will be allowed to operate as restaurants.
Billioux says bars aren’t the only new businesses that can open. He notes children’s museums can open in a controlled manner, along with places like day spas, tattoo parlors, controlled swimming polls.
The state will remain in Phase Two at least until June 26th.
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