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Director's Journal Entry: Second Amended Reporting Requirements for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Second Amended Reporting Requirements for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Under Ohio Revised Code 3701.14 and 3701.23

Lance Himes, Interim Director, Ohio Department of Health · Ohio (State)

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Jurisdiction
Ohio
Level
State
Authority
R.C. 3701.14; R.C. 3701.23
Issued
2020-10-20 Oct. 20, 2020
Effective
2020-10-20
End
Continued after June 2, 2021 as a 'technical' order (Ex. OH-048 preamble); a further amended reporting journal entry was posted in 2022 (ODH archive) (read as 2021-09-30)
In force
Oct. 20, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Health care ordersOther
Addressees
  • physicians and health care providers
  • hospitals, clinics and institutions
  • laboratories
  • local health districts
Functions reached
  • DX diagnostics and laboratory reporting
  • IC case reporting
  • OF administration (24-hour reporting duty)
Collection
Ohio OH

Operative words

To protect the people and prevent the spread of contagious or infectious agents, I order that: Confirmed and Probable cases of COVID-19 be reported within twenty-four (24) hours to the local health district in which the person resides... The person in charge of any laboratory that examines specimens of human origin for evidence of COVID-19 infection shall electronically report within twenty-four (24) hours the results of all such examination, including, but not limited to positive, negative, invalid, and inconclusive...

Enforcement

R.C. 3701.352; Ohio Adm. Code 3701-3-03, 3701-3-06

Notes

Amends the journal entries of Jan. 23, Mar. 14 and Apr. 8, 2020; the reporting regime is the predicate for the local quarantine orders that followed each reported case.

Retrieval note

Q3 2021 status inferred from the May 17, 2021 preamble and the ODH archive's 2022 amended reporting entry; graded verified_primary as to text, verified_secondary as to continued force in Q3 2021.