Under the new restrictions, only one employee can be in a room at a time and customers cannot enter businesses. Payments must be made online or by phone.

The move comes even as new confirmed cases of COVID-19 increased statewide in recent days, with much of the activity linked to an outbreak in Green Bay, where JBS USA temporarily shut down a meatpacking plant Sunday after a spike in infections among workers.

Evers, who called the Brown County situation “concerning,” cited the outbreak as a reason for not allowing certain parts of the state to reopen before others. It “underscores the importance of taking a statewide approach to ‘safer at home’ right now,” he said.

Andrea Palm, secretary of the state health department, said emergency room visits for flu-like symptoms were down slightly over the past two weeks, one factor for reopening the state. But ER visits for suspected COVID-19 have gone up slightly, as has the percentage of people testing positive for COVID-19, among the other key criteria.

Testing capacity and tests conducted are also both up, but there still isn’t enough testing being done to know that community spread of COVID-19 has died down enough to further loosen restrictions, Palm said.