Colorado updates definition of COVID-19 outbreak

COLORADO (KRDO) -- For the majority of the COVID-19 pandemic, the state health department defined an outbreak at a business or public setting as two or more positive COVID-19 cases within 14 days -- that standard is changing starting June 1.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said Tuesday that starting now, it will take "five or more confirmed or probable cases of COVID-19, of which at least one case has had a positive molecular amplification test or antigen test with onset in a 14-day period" to establish an official COVID-19 outbreak.

The standard isn't changing for residential health care facilities and correctional facilities, however. Those settings will still adhere to the existing policy of "two or more confirmed cases" or "one confirmed case and two or more probable cases" within a 14-day period.

You can see a list of active COVID-19 outbreaks in Colorado by clicking this link.