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COVID-19 Guidance: Cloth and Homemade Masks

Cloth and Homemade Masks (Mask Guidance, April 20, 2020)

Allegheny County Health Department · Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (County)

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Jurisdiction
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania · Pittsburgh · Pennsylvania
Level
County
Authority
Guidance restating the Pennsylvania Department of Health's April 2020 mask requirement for customers and employees
Issued
2020-04-20 Apr. 20, 2020
Effective
2020-04-20
End
Superseded by the Secretary of Health's July 1, 2020 universal face-covering order (read as 2020-07-01)
In force
Apr. 20, 2020 to July 1, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Stay-at-homeFace-covering requirement
Addressees
  • the public
  • businesses and their customers and employees
Functions reached
  • SF sales floor (customer masks)
  • WF
  • CB
Collection
Pittsburgh MET-PIT

Operative words

The Pennsylvania Department of Health is requiring customers and employees at businesses to wear masks in addition to its recommendation that people wear masks when they are out in public.... People should stay home - regardless of whether they wear a mask or not - unless they are getting groceries, medicines, or other needed supplies, working in essential services, or getting exercise...

Enforcement

n/a (guidance); the underlying requirement is the Secretary's April 15, 2020 worker-safety order.

Notes

Confirms the County's contemporaneous reading of the State stay-at-home and business mask requirements.

Retrieval note

Guidance.