Level 1: Stay at Home
Everyone was required to stay at home except for grocery shopping, exercise and necessary activities. Only critical businesses were open.
Level 2: Safer at Home and in the Vast, Great Outdoors
While we are all still safer at home, we are also able to practice greater social distancing in our great outdoors than in confined indoor spaces.
Level 3: Protect Our Neighbors
Local public health agencies have the ability to contain surges in cases and outbreaks through testing, case investigation, contact tracing, isolation, quarantine, site-specific closures, and the enforcement of public health orders.
48,394
cases
552,205
people tested
1,710
deaths due to COVID-19
488
outbreaks
Guidance
Guidance released to help schools respond to COVID-19 cases and outbreaks
The guidance provides specific steps a school should take in response to cases and outbreaks and outlines when classrooms, cohorts, and schools should close. It is a go-to manual for school leadership experiencing one or more cases of COVID-19.
Guidance
Health guidance for reopening schools
CDPHE, CDE and the Governor’s Office worked together to develop this guidance for Local Public Health agencies and districts as they develop school plans.
MASKS REQUIRED
Masks now are mandatory in all public indoor spaces
A statewide mandatory mask order is now in effect for Colorado. The mandatory Statewide mask order goes into effect at midnight on July 16, 2020, and is in effect for 30 days.