Posted on 11/09/2020 2:18:23 AM PST by Cronos
Governor and Utah Department of Health Issue Statewide Mask Mandate, Pause Extracurricular Activities, Ask Utahns to Limit Gatherings to Household Only
Following weeks of continued stress on Utah’s hospital networks due to a rise in cases of COVID-19, Gov. Gary R. Herbert has declared a new State of Emergency to address hospital overcrowding.
The situation is dire and unsustainable. We must take action now to protect our hospitals and healthcare workers and to avoid further devastation on our families, communities, and businesses.
Along with the State of Emergency, the governor and Utah Department of Health have issued concurrent executive and public health orders to curb the surge of cases in Utah.
The orders are effective Monday, Nov. 9 and will remain in effect until Nov. 23, 2020 1. The entire state is now under a mask mandate. You must wear a face mask indoors and outdoors anytime you are within 6 feet of anyone from another household. This means you must wear a face mask anytime you are around people you don’t live with. Customers, patrons and employees of businesses must wear a face mask.
Even after the orders issued today expire, the mask mandate will be extended for the foreseeable future.
2. Casual social gatherings are only allowed with people you live with until November 23, 2020.
This does not apply to work, school or religious services, where masking and physical distancing are already enforced.
You should cancel plans with extended family and friends for the next two weeks. Telework if you can.
Businesses and restaurants are not shut down because of this, but if you go out to eat, it should only be with people from your home.
Businesses must post signage that lists COVID-19 symptoms and face mask and physical distancing requirements. Event hosts must require masks of all participants. Restaurants will require at least 6 feet of distance between household groups or seating parties. Bars must close at 10 p.m.
3. All school extracurricular activities, sports and clubs are on hold for the duration of the orders. No organized or school-sponsored extracurricular activities, including sports and intramural events. Currently scheduled high school football games are allowed to continue with increased restrictions. No private, recreation, or club sports and athletic events. After November 23, 2020, it is anticipated weekly testing of participants in high school sports will be implemented. Intercollegiate sporting events are allowed due to already enforced health requirements.
4. College students, who either live on campus or attend at least one in-person class per week, are required to be tested for COVID-19 weekly.
K-12 schools are open for in-person learning. College and university students who live on campus or attend an in-person class will be tested for COVID-19 each week. Testing is encouraged to begin as soon as possible, but must be implemented by the beginning of spring semester.
“This is a sacrifice for all of us. But if we make it, it will make all the difference for our overworked healthcare workers, who desperately need our help.” Utah Gov. Gary Herbert
On the same day a potential President Biden is assembling his Covid gestapo task force in preparation in forcing the entire nation into darker tyranny of the globalist planned dark winter ohh joy.
They need this uptick in the country to blame it all on trump and is reckless approach to this dire emergency Another planned hoax, they have trained the masses well, the people are hysterical about pandemic and they are going to use it to control the masses, you watch
yeah utah now oh boy!!
how many thousands died??
I HATE this monstrous pandemic!
I remember digging day and night during the plague here in NYC
Actually, i STILL don’t know ONE ####ing person who has/had it.
I can’t believe b.tches even pay attention to this #### still.
It’s embarrassing
Covid is going to be used for our destruction.
another round of draconian but useless orders. masks don’t work. Apparently it has been determined that the virus spreads in social situations but not school or work where you can mingle with those not of your household. Looks like it only spreads after 10’pm as well as restaurants have to close at 10. It only spreads at athletic events other than high school football games. This is a tricky virus!
Oh Im sure Willard and his BFF Joe will get right on that problem and have it fixed by breakfast...
The only attention I have paid to it was to see how the US was fairing in its test/million numbers.
Still #19 forever. Damn Saint Pierre Miquelon.
Trying to understand their logic
Orange Man Gone. That’s their logic.
I still haven’t seen the burning piles of bodies.
The hospital overcrowding is not Covid, its very sick backed up cases caused by Politicians who played doctor by locking down hospitals for a covid over load that never came.
The cure for the hospital overcrowding is tar and feathers, not doubling down on lockdowns.
Dp check out RLF-100 a couple other FReeps know about it....is gonna be the “cure”
Government run sports OK....Private sports not OK.
That's real double-think there!
I hope he recovers quickly and aim sorry for your wait. Are your hospitals still doing elective surgeries? How many of those hospitalized have covid vs something else?
I’m sorry to hear that ma’am.
May I ask you
1. In which state this is?
2. How is he now?
Haven’t been able to find current hospitalization utilization rates for the state of Utah.
They don’t make it easy.
Hmmmm, I wonder why that is?
FWIW, without current, detailed hospitalization rate info, I smell a rat.
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