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Stay at Home Advisory issued by Columbus Public Health and Franklin County Public Health

Stay at Home Advisory Issued by Columbus Public Health and Franklin County Public Health

Columbus Public Health (Mysheika W. Roberts, MD, MPH, Health Commissioner) and Franklin County Public Health (Joe Mazzola, Health Commissioner) · City of Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio (County)

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Jurisdiction
City of Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio · Columbus · Ohio
Level
County
Authority
Advisory issued by the two health commissioners under R.C. ch. 3709 (not a mandatory order); 'supplements all current orders of Governor R. Michael DeWine, the Ohio Department of Health, Franklin County, the City of Columbus, and the municipalities of Franklin County'
Issued
2020-11-18 Nov. 18, 2020
Effective
2020-11-20 6:00 p.m. (read as 2020-11-20)
End
Two incubation periods (28 days), i.e., Dec. 18, 2020; extended until Jan. 2, 2021 and then until Jan. 23, 2021 (FCPH releases) (read as 2021-03-31)
In force
Nov. 20, 2020 to Mar. 31, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q42021 Q1
Limitation types
Stay-at-homeGathering capTravel and quarantineOther
Addressees
  • all residents of Columbus and Franklin County
Functions reached
  • CB customer base (advised to stay home)
  • WF
  • GATH events (ten-person limit urged)
  • TV travel
Collection
Columbus MET-CMH

Operative words

Columbus Health Commissioner Dr. Mysheika Roberts and Franklin County Health Commissioner Joe Mazzola advise all residents of Columbus and Franklin County to stay at home to the greatest extent possible. Residents are advised to only leave home to go to work or school or for essential needs such as medical care, groceries, medicine and food pick up. Residents also are strongly advised not to have any guests in their homes unless they are essential workers, including for the Thanksgiving holiday. Columbus and Franklin County residents also are urged to limit meetings and social events to 10 individuals both indoors and outside, and to avoid traveling in and out of the state.

Enforcement

None; advisory. It is pleaded as the health authorities' formal direction to the customer base and workforce during the winter 2020-21 surge, alongside the State's mandatory curfew (Nov. 19, 2020) and retail mask compliance order (Nov. 13, 2020)

Notes

Franklin County was at Purple (Level 4) on the Ohio Public Health Advisory System from Nov. 19 to Dec. 3, 2020 and Red thereafter; the commissioners urged residents to stay home 'until Dec. 18' (Dec. 4, 2020 statement).

Retrieval note

The issuing agency's own publication of the advisory (published Nov. 18, 2020). Graded primary as to the advisory's text; the advisory is not an order and is so described.