Placer County business owners hope to move to red tier this week

With Placer County's positivity rate falling from 9% at the end of January to just shy of three percent in about a month’s time, and case numbers making marked improvement in that same timeframe — dropping from 17.3 cases to 6 cases per 100,000 people — it appears Placer County may be among the next crop of California's counties reaching red tier status as early as this week.