By Alan Gionet, CBS Denver

“DENVER — Colorado on Wednesday debuted its new COVID-19 dial, known as “Dial 3.0,” which relaxes some restrictions and provides an easier path to less restrictions, depending on county COVID-19 case rates.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced the new dial Friday and took feedback for several days before finalizing the changes Tuesday.

The CDPHE says that by mid-April, it will again make changes to “move to a more local model, allowing local public health agencies to assume more control over capacity restrictions that are currently determined by the dial.” It last changed the dial-in early February.”

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