Santa Cruz County health officials said Thursday that they are about four weeks away from moving into the extended Stage 2 of reopening.
San Benito County announced on Wednesday that it was approved to move into the Stage 2 extension that allows dine-in restaurants and walk-in shopping to reopen.
Santa Cruz Health officials said more testing and contact tracing are required to move in the direction of extended stage two. Volunteers can sign up to be contact tracers, and beginning next week, they said there will be contact tracing training run by the state.
Santa Cruz County currently has 15 contact tracers but will three times as many.
Monterey County still has too many cases to advance to Stage 2.
