Westchester County took a step closer Tuesday to reopening.

Westchester’s region met another of the seven criteria required to begin phase one of reopening, leaving two to go, according to New York State’s Regional Monitoring Dashboard.

New hospitalizations in the Mid-Hudson region dropped to 1.74 per 100,000 residents on a three-day rolling average, the dashboard shows. That meets criteria number 3: “Region must experience fewer than 2 new hospitalizations per 100,000 residents, measured on a three-day rolling average. New hospitalizations include both new admissions and prior admissions subsequently confirmed as positive Covid-19 cases.”

The region still needs to show a 14-day decline in the three-day rolling average of daily hospital deaths—or report a three-day rolling average of new hospital deaths that does not exceed five.

The Mid Hudson counties currently have four days in a row of declines in hospital deaths and an average of eight deaths per day over three days.

The other requirement the region needs to meet is to line up 30 contact tracers per 100,000 residents. This column is starred and listed as “expected” on the state dashboard.

Industries allowed to re-start under phase one are:

• Construction
• Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
• Retail (limited to curbside or in-store pickup or drop off)
• Manufacturing
• Wholesale trade