On Sunday, March 29, Governor Stitt issued his "Sixth Amended Executive Order" which added several new provisions to his prior orders.
1) According to ¶ 22, package delivery companies are now required to have a screening, including a "daily temperature check" and administration of "a short questionnaire about potential exposure" at the beginning of each shift for any employee "handling packages." Similar checks are required for any person delivering packages, flowers or food to "a hospital, clinic, long-term care facility or childcare facility."
2) Paragraph 23 prohibits discriminating against "front-line healthcare workers and their children" who are not showing symptoms of COVID-19 infection and have yet to test positive for it "in housing or childcare services."
3) Paragraph 26 imposes a quarantine on anyone who has traveled to Oklahoma "by air" from "an area with substantial community spread", which includes the states of Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Washington, California and Louisiana for 14 days, retroactive to when that person entered the State. Such persons are apparently free to leave Oklahoma (the period of quarantine is actually 14 days from entry in the state "or the duration of the person's presence" in Oklahoma, "whichever is shorter." This quarantine apparently does not include people who drive from those places, only those that fly. Paragraph 27 requires that these individuals "inform any individual in Oklahoma with whom they have had direct physical contact in the past 21 days that they traveled from an area with substantial community spread."
These new provisions are effective until April 28, 2020 ("thirty (30) days after the filing of this Order." Likewise, as did prior Orders, this new Order extends the stay-home order for "vulnerable individuals" (¶ 17), the prohibition on social gatherings of more than 10 people (¶ 18), and ban on visitors at nursing homes, retirement homes and long-term care facilities (¶ 21) to the same date. Those provisions are addressed in the post on the "Fourth Amended" version of the Order.
1) According to ¶ 22, package delivery companies are now required to have a screening, including a "daily temperature check" and administration of "a short questionnaire about potential exposure" at the beginning of each shift for any employee "handling packages." Similar checks are required for any person delivering packages, flowers or food to "a hospital, clinic, long-term care facility or childcare facility."
2) Paragraph 23 prohibits discriminating against "front-line healthcare workers and their children" who are not showing symptoms of COVID-19 infection and have yet to test positive for it "in housing or childcare services."
3) Paragraph 26 imposes a quarantine on anyone who has traveled to Oklahoma "by air" from "an area with substantial community spread", which includes the states of Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Washington, California and Louisiana for 14 days, retroactive to when that person entered the State. Such persons are apparently free to leave Oklahoma (the period of quarantine is actually 14 days from entry in the state "or the duration of the person's presence" in Oklahoma, "whichever is shorter." This quarantine apparently does not include people who drive from those places, only those that fly. Paragraph 27 requires that these individuals "inform any individual in Oklahoma with whom they have had direct physical contact in the past 21 days that they traveled from an area with substantial community spread."
These new provisions are effective until April 28, 2020 ("thirty (30) days after the filing of this Order." Likewise, as did prior Orders, this new Order extends the stay-home order for "vulnerable individuals" (¶ 17), the prohibition on social gatherings of more than 10 people (¶ 18), and ban on visitors at nursing homes, retirement homes and long-term care facilities (¶ 21) to the same date. Those provisions are addressed in the post on the "Fourth Amended" version of the Order.
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