Los Angeles County could reopening more widely sometime in October, the county’s public health director said on Wednesday.

The county already has a low enough seven-day average testing positivity rate — around 3.2% — to move to a less- restrictive tier, but average new case numbers are still too high, currently averaging 8.1 cases per 100,000 residents.

The state threshold for advancing to the less-restrictive “red” tier is 7 cases per 100,000.

“If we don’t see a surge in cases and hospitalizations associated with activities over Labor Day and we continue to reduce our rate of community transmission over the weeks ahead, we could enter tier 2, which is a less restrictive tier, sometime in October,” Ferrer said.

“We don’t realistically anticipate that we would be moving to either tier two [red] or to reopening our K-through-12 schools at least during, at least until after the election, after, you know, in early November,” Ferrer said on the call, a recording of which was first obtained and aired by KFI radio.

Health officials have said repeatedly they will not consider any more business reopenings in the county until at least late September, after determining if virus cases and hospitalizations increase following the Labor Day holiday weekend — the way they did after Memorial Day and the Fourth of July.

If the county gets its average new case numbers below 7 per 100,000 residents, and maintains that level for two weeks, then L.A.

Ferrer said the county is now seeing its lowest average testing-positivity rate of the pandemic.

Christina Ghaly, said overall testing numbers over the past week had dropped, due in part to closures of some testing centers due to poor air quality caused by the region’s wildfires.

The daily number of cases has fallen nearly in half from a high of over 20,000 tests a day in early July to a 7-day daily average of 9,772 on Wednesday.

Ferrer again warned that the impact of the Labor Day holiday weekend has yet to be borne out in case numbers, since the virus has a 14-day incubation period.

The county on Wednesday reported 31 coronavirus-related deaths, although one of those fatalities was actually announced Tuesday by health officials in Long Beach.

The total number of fatalities in the county stood at 6,305 as of Wednesday.

The county also announced 1,148 newly confirmed cases, while Long Beach added 40 cases and Pasadena reported six, lifting the cumulative total since the start of the pandemic to 256,194