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Gov. Tom Wolf announced on Monday that he was lifting some of the mitigation efforts in place to help limit the spread of COVID-19.

The governor eliminated the testing requirements for Pennsylvanians who travel out of state and increased the maximum occupancy for indoor events.

The limit for indoor events is now set to 15 percent of maximum occupancy “regardless of venue size,” according to the governor. The limit for outdoor events is up to 20 percent.

Warren County School District has starting making adjustments.

The numerical cap for indoor gatherings has been removed. While those attending indoor events will have to continue to follow “core public health measures such as face covering, social distancing, and hand hygiene” allowing 15 percent of a venue’s capacity will increase the number of people who can attend winter sports events.

Early in the school year, the maximum gathering limits were 25 indoors and 250 outdoors.

Those rules effectively set the number of spectators for indoor sports to zero.

Since late November, the district has been working under a 10 percent limit, according to WCSD Supervisor of District-Wide Athletics Rick Gignac.

The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletics Association (PIAA) has sent information to districts, Gignac said.

“We will be working with the athletic directors to adapt to the new guidelines,” Director of Administrative Support Services Gary Weber said.

Under the 15 percent rule, the district’s high school gyms will be able to accommodate at least 84 people – at Eisenhower – 94 at Youngsville, 100 at Warren, and a maximum of 124 at Sheffield.

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The district will also follow the governor’s lead on out-of-state travel.

“In November, the Department of Health provided an updated travel order requiring anyone over the age of 11 who visits from another state to provide evidence of a negative COVID-19 test or place themselves in a travel quarantine for 14 days upon entering Pennsylvania,” according to the governor’s release. “Today, this order was rescinded. The current downward trend of cases nationwide and implementation of testing requirements and universal face covering on public transportation and transportation hubs are reducing the risk that interstate travel is a vector of disease transmission. “We will continue to follow the state mandates,” Superintendent Amy Stewart said. “We will update our Health and Safety Plans.”