Covid-19 guidelines in different Counties

Covid-19 has impacted everyone and while Governor Polis has made several announcements about how Colorado will open and what guidelines will be put in place, counties within Colorado have slightly different guidelines than those of the governor.

Douglas County follows the governors stay-at-home order, allowing business to re-open June 1s. The stay-at-home orders allow for business to re-open as long as they follow safety and social distancing guidelines.

The stay-at-home orders allowed for places of worship, gyms and the great outdoors to open. Camping and outdoor activities are allowed to resume as long as they are in groups of ten or less and practice social distancing. This goes for gyms and places of worship as well.

Business must control the amount of people within their business only allowing for half of their usual occupancy. Business must also have sanitizing stations at every entrance and have routine cleaning throughout the store. The orders also state that everyone is safer-at -home and in the great outdoors where greater social distancing practices are easier than indoor spaces.

The safer-at-home orders are classified as a level three. Level one being stay-at-home, only leaving for essential shopping like grocery shopping. Level two being safer-at-home, where everyone stays at home with a few essential stores open and non-critical stores operate with restrictions.

Douglas county has 764 confirmed cases and 47 deaths. 

Denver County has also decided to follow the governors stay-at-home orders and re-opened businesses as of June 6th. Denver County has made some of the stay-at-home orders mandatory instead of suggestions, like wearing a mask. Wearing masks are mandatory in Denver County when people are in line to enter any business or any facility offering government or health care services. They are also mandatory when waiting for or riding on public transpiration.

As of May 27th  Denver County allowed for restaurants to re-open as long as the follow state guidelines and wear masks at all times unless they are drinking or eating. Denver County urges people to stay home unless it’s absolutely necessary to leave home.

Denver County has 6,176 confirmed cases and 349 deaths. 


The last week of April, Weld County rolled out a safer-at-work guidelines that follows the governors safer-at-home orders. Weld County says theses safer-at-work guidelines  help bridge the gap between the governors first announcement of safer-at-home orders and all the phases that followed.

Weld County’s safer-at-work guidelines say that business should limit the number of people within their store, maintain six feet apart at all times, encourage costumers to call ahead and make appointments, have six feet makers on the floor, install plexiglass coverings for cash registers and creating one way ales. As well as regularly sanitizing commonly touched areas and having hand sanitizer throughout the store. Weld county also says to put up posters encouraging hand hygiene and appropriate mask use.

Weld County current death toll is at 135  and the total amount of Covid-19 cases are at 2,604. 

Each county follows the governors stay-at-home orders but with slight variations in how strictly they are enforced, Denver County being the strictest and Weld County not strongly enforcing these orders.