The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- City of Minneapolis · Minneapolis-St. Paul · Minnesota
- Level
- City
- Authority
- Minn. Stat. 12.29; MCO 128.50, 128.60
- Issued
- 2020-04-23 Apr. 23, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-04-28 5:00 p.m. (read as 2020-04-28)
- End
- 2020-07-24 (rescinded by ER 2020-16, Ex. MET-MSP-012) (read as 2020-07-24)
- In force
- Apr. 28, 2020 to July 24, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capFace-covering requirementHealth care ordersWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- housing with services
- end-stage renal dialysis clinics
- hospice facilities
- psychiatric health facilities
- nursing homes
- boarding care homes
- boarding and lodging establishments including substance use treatment centers
- their staff, visitors and service providers
- Functions reached
- VS visitation
- DN dining and activities
- IC infection control and screening
- HC in-facility services by outside providers (barbers, entertainers, therapists)
- WF staff return-to-work rules
- RS residential care cohorting
- Collection
- Minneapolis-St. Paul MET-MSP
Operative words
Licensed Congregate Health Care Facilities shall observe the following regulations: Limited entry. No one other than employees, first responders, medical professionals, or contracted essential maintenance workers and service providers are to enter a facility. All visitors, including volunteers and nonessential workers such as barbers, entertainers, and the like, are prohibited from entering the facility.... All communal dining and activities are to be suspended.... All staff shall wear a face covering at all times while in the facility.... Symptom screening for all. Everyone entering the facility... must have a COVID-19 symptom screening prior to entry... This Order is effective 5:00 p.m. (CST) April 28, 2020
Enforcement
A violation of this Emergency Regulation is a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000 or imprisonment for not more than 90 days. Minn. Stat. 12.45; MCO 1.30.
Notes
Home-care, senior-living, hospital and personal-services memoranda: a city order barring outside service providers from every congregate facility in Minneapolis for three months.
Retrieval noteIssue date Apr. 23, 2020 per ER 2020-16 recital; recites 281 cases and 35 deaths in the City as of Apr. 22, 2020, over 90 percent of deaths in long-term care.