SALT LAKE CITY-Sunday afternoon, Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson issued a public health order for Utah’s most populous county, taking effect Monday morning at 12:01 pm through April 13.
This order includes
-new, stay-at-home directives
-closures of common gathering places
-new rules for businesses that will stay open
-restrictions of food service activities
-clarification of “essential businesses.”
-ensuring that essential infrastructure is not impacted.
Wilson and her cabinet have deemed “essential businesses” to be grocery stores, pharmacies, convenience stores and gas stations.
Others include automotive and bicycle supply, repair and sales, pet supply and veterinary services, food pantries, food and beverage production, religious institutions and charitable and social services, childcare centers, insurance and financial service providers, hardware and supplies stores, critical construction trades, mail, shipping and delivery, laundromats and dry cleaners, home-based care providers, legal, accounting and real estate, hotels and motels, higher education, transportation, utilities and other essential infrastructure.
-Media and essential government functions
Any business or worker included among the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s critical infrastructure sectors.
These businesses are, by law, required to exclude any employees with fever, cough, shortness of breath and should practice six feet of social distancing as much as possible.
There are further stipulations for all other businesses in the county.
Restricted businesses include: the prohibition of dine-in service and in-person ordering (drive-thru service is permissible). Remote payments, whenever possible, are encouraged. There must be clean payment devices between transactions. Payment handling employees have been restricted from food service. All other businesses and work-sites not listed are considered non-essential.
The closed businesses will remain so until April 14 at which point, the situation will be reassessed.
