Today, Salt Lake County Health Department Executive Director Dr. Angela C. Dunn gave a general wellbeing request requiring individuals in Salt Lake County, paying little mind to inoculation status or past COVID-19 disease, to wear well-fitting covers when inside (or queueing outside) out in the open. For ideal security, Dr. Dunn suggests wearing respirators, like KN95s, rather than fabric covers, if conceivable.
The request, #2022-01, is in light of the record-breaking flood of the Omicron COVID-19 variation; it produces results at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, January 8, 2022, and is presently wanted to be in power until 5 p.m. on Monday, February 7, 2022.
“We frantically need to utilize each apparatus accessible to guarantee our clinics can keep giving phenomenal medical care through this flood,” said Dr. Dunn. “We likewise need to guarantee that our fundamental administrations have the staff important to work—from law requirement, to furrow drivers, to teachers. It is my commitment as wellbeing official to make the move I accept has the most obvious opportunity to forestall pointless enduring all through our local area.”
Exemptions to the order include:
- Individuals under two years of age and those with medical conditions, impairments or disabilities that prevent wearing a mask.
- Individuals engaging in work where they are alone and individuals for whom wearing a mask would create a risk to the individual related to their work as determined by local, state or federal regulators or workplace safety guidelines.
- Individuals seated at a restaurant or other food/beverage establishment while they are actively eating or drinking.