Bars in North Carolina welcomed back customers indoors over the weekend after almost a year of outdoor only cocktail service. On Friday, the Governor Roy Cooper's new executive order took effect , allowing indoor service at bars with 30% capacity, lifting the 10 p.m. curfew and easing capacity restrictions for a number of businesses and venues. During Wednesday's briefing the governor stressed that the new order was part of his continued "dimmer switch approach" noting that key indicators used to guide decisions throughout pandemic show state's trends are moving in the right direction. On the same day the order went into effect, t he head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that the country's recent progress in slowing the coronavirus spread may be "stalling" as highly infectious new variants become more predominant. BPR's Helen Chickering discussed the new order and variants with NC Health News Editor Rose Hoban .

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