{"id":"AGY-TRIBAL-021","kind":"order","level":"tribal","jurisdiction":"Navajo Nation (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah) - tribal government","state":"","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"TRIBAL","eco":"","issuer":"Navajo Department of Health with the Navajo Health Command Operations Center","authority":"NNC Res. CO-50-14; CEM Res. 20-03-11; NNC Res. CJN-36-21","instrument":"Public Health Emergency Order No. 2021-014","title":"Public Health Emergency Order Implementing the Navajo Nation COVID-19 Safe Schools Framework and Declaring Yellow Status for Schools","dateIssued":"2021-07-07","effective":"2021-07-08 5:00 a.m. MDT","end":"2021-08-12 (Orange Status for schools, PHEO 2021-018, Ex. AZ-083); Framework remained binding after Sept. 30, 2021","startDate":"2021-07-08","endDate":"2021-08-12","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["SCH","MASK","EMP"],"addressees":["all schools on the Navajo Nation, including Head Start"],"clause":"A. The Navajo Nation COVID-19 Safe Schools Framework is declared binding on all schools, including Head Start, across the Navajo Nation. All schools are required to comply with the Navajo Nation COVID-19 Safe Schools Framework and the Navajo Nation School Reopening Plan.... [Schools are declared] to be in Yellow Status. All schools shall be bound to the conditions and requirements of Yellow status.... C. Yellow status is defined as: Moderate Transmission of COVID-19. Schools must [implement the mitigation] strategies noted in the Framework: parent options, use of masks, physical distancing... D. All schools are required to create, submit and implement a School Reopening Plan and [a] Reopening Readiness Assessment Attestation... NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this Order shall take effect Thursday, July 8, 2021 at 5:00 A.M. MDT, and shall remain in effect until amended or rescinded by the Health Command Center.","enforcement":"Failure to comply constitutes an imminent threat (recited); plans and attestations filed with the Department of Dine Education","functions":["IN in-person instruction conditioned on Framework compliance","WF workforce (parents of children in Navajo schools and Head Start)","EMP written reopening plans and attestations","EC child care (Head Start)"],"notes":"2021 Q3 instrument in force on July 8, 2021; the school regime tightened to Orange Status on Aug. 12, 2021 (AZ-083)","sourceUrl":"https://www.navajo-nsn.gov/Portals/0/Coronavirus%20Information/2021/NDOH%20Public%20Health%20Emergency%20Order%202021-014%20Dikos%20Ntsaaigii-19.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":979756,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-TRIBAL","url":"/library/AGY-TRIBAL-021","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-TRIBAL-021","citation":"Navajo Department of Health with the Navajo Health Command Operations Center, Public Health Emergency Order No. 2021-014 (July 7, 2021) (Ex. AGY-TRIBAL-021)","stateName":"","related":["AZ-083"]}