Colorado’s coronavirus mitigation stay at home orders are expected to expire Sunday. Governor Jared Polis announced a second phase of guidelines known as Safer at Home, expected to begin Monday.

Restaurants, bars and nightclubs are to remain closed under the Safer at Home orders and no set date for their reopening has been set. Fitness facilities are also to remain closed.

“This is not a free-for-all,” Polis said at a Wednesday news conference. “This is not an excuse to turn this into some kind of a vacation. It’s a pandemic.”

However, Weld County is prepared to let all of its businesses, including those involving face to face transactions such as restaurants and retail establishments, to open on Monday.

“It is crucial that businesses reopen gradually and responsibly for the safety of their employees and their customers,” said Commissioner Chair Mike Freeman in a Thursday statement. “No one should expect businesses to be operating at full capacity for a while, but it is important to let businesses at least start the reopening process.”

While Freeman stated in a Thursday interview with radio station KFKA that businesses should reopen gradually and responsibly, he emphasized that the county was allowing “businesses all across the board” to reopen if they choose to do so.

“I think the governor’s been pretty clear all along that his orders are unenforceable,” Freeman said. “He said that was a stay-at-home order. That was pretty interesting. When you get to the end of that, he said ‘By the way, none of this is enforceable anyway.’ I think he made it very clear that he expected local health departments and local counties to figure this out and they would be the ones enforcing it.”

“At the end of the day,” Freeman continued, “all we’re doing is putting guidelines out. We’re not telling businesses they have to open or anything like that.”

“What we’re saying is we’re going to treat everyone equally and fairly across Weld County,” Freeman added.

Newsweek reached out to Governor Polis’ office for comment.

Included within the Safer at Work guidelines, which were created in conjunction with the Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment, are suggestions to use hand sanitizer or wash one’s hands after handling cash. Installing Plexiglass barriers at point of sale areas is also recommended.

Colorado’s Safer at Home guidelines state that personal service establishments, such as barbershops and pet groomers, can be open “with strict precautions.” However, people are still encouraged to remain at home and wear face masks in public. Public gatherings are to be limited to no more than 10 people.

Recent data indicates a total of 1,339 positive cases of coronavirus reported in Weld County with 82 fatalities attributed to the virus.

Governor Polis gave an exemption to the state’s stay-at-home orders to Eagle County, Colorado on Thursday. Vail Ski Resort is located within the county.

“The rest of the state is about a week to 10 days behind where Eagle County is,” Polis said during a video conference. “It is really appropriate that one of the first and hardest-hit counties is the first to really have your act together in a way that has the full confidence and support of the state of Colorado.”

While social distancing protocols still apply in Eagle County, the more strict aspects of the statewide stay-at-home order were lifted.