Hood River County moves into Oregon’s COVID-19 lower risk category beginning Friday.  Hood River County Health Department Director Trish Elliott says COVID case numbers have dropped steadily in the last month, with only fifteen in the two-week period that ended last Saturday that resulted in the category change.  Elliott does caution people still need to continue to exercise precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19.  Wasco County remains in the lower risk category after seeing only four new COVID-19 cases in the two-week period that ended last weekend.