Shelter-In-Place Order Extended In Dublin Through May 31

Press release from the City of Dublin:

April 29, 2020

While efforts taken to reduce the spread of COVID-19 have been effective, local health officers say that the risk to public health remains significant. New health orders announced today extend the current Shelter-in-Place Orders through May 31, with the easing of some restrictions.

The Health Officer Order requires that most people continue to stay home unless they are engaged in certain “essential activities" or to engage in certain low-risk activities, which include:

• Performing tasks or activities essential to personal or family health and safety;
• Obtaining necessary services and supplies, including perishable goods, food, and medical supplies;
• Performing work providing essential products and services;
• Engaging in outdoor activity, including to take care of pets, going on a walk, or exercising - as long as individuals do not congregate in a group and maintain at least six feet of distance between each other.

The Order allows a limited number of additional Essential Businesses and certain lower risk Outdoor Businesses to resume operating:

• All construction projects that follow the Construction Project Safety Protocols included with the order in Appendix B;
• All real estate transactions, with restrictions on open houses and limited tours;
• Childcare, camps, and educational/recreation programs that provide care for children of people who are allowed to work outside of their homes;
• Outdoor businesses such as nurseries, landscaping, and agriculture that normally operated outdoors prior to the shelter-in-place orders; and
• Use of certain outdoor recreational facilities, as long as social distancing procedures are in place.
• As a condition of operating under this Order, the operators of all businesses must prepare or update, post, implement, and distribute to their personnel a Social Distancing Protocol for each of their facilities frequented by personnel or members of the public.

Updated Alameda Co. Shelter-in-Place Order, 4/29

This press release was produced by the Town of Dublin. The views expressed here are the author’s own.