Active Orders

• COVID-19 restrictions ("shelter in place" update), Issued September 2, 2020
• Isolation & Quarantine, Updated July 31, 2020
• Mandatory face coverings, June 5, 2020
• Screening and masks for licensed facilities, April 16, 2020
• Laboratory test reporting, March 24, 2020

Superseded Orders

• Phased reopening (shelter in place update), Issued August 21, 2020; Updated August 27, 2020
• Phased reopening (shelter in place update), Updated July 17, 2020
• Shelter in place update, June 5, 2020
• Shelter in place update, May 18, 2020
• Shelter in place update, April 29, 2020
• Mandatory face coverings, April 17, 2020
• Shelter in place update, March 31, 2020
• Shelter in place order, March 16, 2020

COVID-19 restrictions on activities and gatherings
Issued September 2, 2020 | Effective September 4, 2020

This Order replaces the previous shelter-in-place Order and aligns allowed activities with the California Blueprint for a Safer Economy. The Order allows hair salons and barbershops to operate indoors and for higher education institutions to open libraries at 25% capacity.

Order

• Health Officer Order
• Appendix A: Permitted and prohibited business and activities
• Appendix B: Site-specific protection plan
• Appendix C-1: Small construction project safety protocol
• Appendix C-2: Large construction project safety protocol
• Appendix D: Vehicle-based gatherings
• Appendix E: Findings of the City of Berkeley Health Officer

Resources

• What's open, what's closed

News

• As new activities are allowed, limit what you do to lower your risk, September 2, 2020

Isolation & Quarantine
July 15, 2020 | Active

These Orders, issued concurrently, require people who have been diagnosed with or who are likely to have COVID-19 to isolate themselves until at least 1 day has passed since recovery and at least 10 days have passed since symptoms first appeared. The Orders also require people to quarantine themselves if they have been exposed through close contact with someone who has COVID-19, including household contacts, intimate partners, and caregivers.

Orders

• Public Health Emergency Isolation Order, Updated July 31
• Public Health Emergency Quarantine Order

Resources

• Home isolation instructions: English | Spanish
• Home quarantine instructions: English | Spanish

Mandatory face coverings
June 5, 2020 | Active

Requires everyone to visibly carry face coverings when outside their home, and wear it over their nose and mouth when within 30 feet of others.

Order

• Order requiring members of the public and workers to wear face coverings
• Exhibit A: Sample face covering sign

Resources

• Frequently asked questions
• Downloadable signs

• Face coverings required:

• English 8.5x11 | 11x17
• Spanish 8.5x11 | 11x17

• Everyone must wear a face covering

• English 8.5x11 | 11x17
• Spanish 8.5x11 | 11x17

• Everyone must wear a face covering (English/Spanish)

• 8.5x11 | 11x17

• Everyone must wear a face covering (English/Spanish/Chinese)

• 8.5x11 | 11x17

News

• New health orders allow increased socialization, activities - and requires having face coverings when out, June 5, 2020

Screening and masks for licensed facilities
April 16, 2020 | Active

Requires symptom checks, temperature screenings, face coverings, and other measures on all workers, visitors, and residents at licensed facilities.

Order

• Text of order
• Attachment A
• Attachment B

News

• Masks, symptom checks, and temperature screenings now required at skilled nursing and residential care facilities April 16, 2020

Laboratory test reporting
March 24, 2020 | Active

Required labs to report all COVID-19 test results to state and local public health authorities.

Order

• Text of order
• Exhibit A
• Exhibit B

News

• Seven Bay Area jurisdictions order laboratories testing for COVID-19 to report testing data to state and local authorities March 24, 2020

Superseded Orders

Phased Reopening Order (Shelter in Place Update)
Issued August 21, 2020 | Updated August 27, 2020 | Active

Allows for certain outdoor personal care services, including hair salons, barbershops, nail salons, waxing, and massage to operate outdoors. Allows outdoor vehicle-based gatherings with live entertainment and outdoor wine tasting without food. Allows outdoor pools to reopen.

This Order was updated on August 27, 2020 to reduce the maximum number of children and adults allowed in a childcare group from 15 to 14, in alignment with State of California rules.

Order

• Health Officer Order
• Appendix A: Site-specific protection plan guidance | Español
• Appendix B-1: Small construction project safety protocol
• Appendix B-2: Large construction project safety protocol
• Appendix C: Additional businesses permitted to operate

Resources

• Fillable site specific protection plan template | Español
• Indicators for assessing progress
• COVID-19 Indicators Dashboard

Industry resources

Guidance from California Department of Public Health and California Department of Industrial Relations.

• Outdoor personal care services
• School sports
• College sports
• Outdoor pools
• Wineries

News

• New outdoor activities to be permitted with restrictions - pools, barbers, wine tasting, August 21, 2020

Phased Reopening Order (Shelter in Place Update)
Issued June 18, 2020 | Updated July 17, 2020 | Superseded

Allows for indoor and outdoor retail, outdoor dining, and non-contact outdoor fitness, and college sports training to resume. Allows places of worship to hold in-person religious services and cultural ceremonies, of 100 or fewer people, or 25 percent of the capacity of the area in which gatherings take place (whichever is less). Allows for outdoor museums, historical sites, and publicly accessible gardens and vehicle based gathering such as drive-in movies.

Update: This Order was updated July 17, 2020 to prohibit indoor worship services, in alignment with current State of California guidelines. The revised Order also includes additional face covering guidance for outdoor dining, to clarify that restaurant patrons should wear face coverings at all times other than when actively eating or drinking.

Order

• Order to comply with social distancing measures and other restrictions necessary to control the spread of COVID-19
• Appendix A: Site-specific protection plan guidance | Español
• Appendix B-1: Small construction project safety protocol
• Appendix B-2: Large construction project safety protocol
• Appendix C: Additional businesses permitted to operate

Resources

• Frequently asked questions
• Businesses permitted to operate as of June 19, 2020  
• Reopening roadmap
• Fillable site specific protection plan template | Español
• Indicators for assessing progress
• COVID-19 Indicators Dashboard

Industry resources

Checklists and guidance from California Department of Public Health and California Department of Industrial Relations.

• Limited services: guidance | checklist
• Logistics and warehousing facilities: guidance | checklist
• Manufacturing: guidance | checklist
• Outdoor museums: guidance
• Places of worship: guidance
• Restaurants: guidance
• Retailers: guidance | checklist

News

• Even as actions like outdoor dining allowed, take steps to quell COVID-19 surge, July 15, 2020
• New Health Order allows outdoor dining, retail, religious and fitness activities - but caution urged, June 18, 2020

Shelter in Place Update
June 5, 2020 | Superseded

Allows childcare and camps to provide services to all children, permits public libraries to offer curbside pickup services, and allows residential housecleaners, dog walkers, pet grooming, and clothing alteration businesses to resume operations. Allows outdoor gatherings between people who have collectively agreed to limit their in-person social activities to only each other for at least three weeks - a "social bubble."

Order

• Order to shelter in place
• Appendix A: Site-specific protection plan guidance
• Appendix B-1: Small construction project safety protocol
• Appendix B-2: Large construction project safety protocol
• Appendix C: Additional businesses permitted to operate

News

• New Health Order expected next week allowing all retail, outdoor dining, religious services, and more, June 12, 2020
• New health orders allow increased socialization, activities - and requires having face coverings when out, June 5, 2020

Shelter in Place Update
May 18, 2020 | Superseded

Extends shelter in place order indefinitely and allows for certain businesses to resume operations: curbside pickup for retail stores as well as manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing which are currently permitted under state of California guidelines. Also allows for pickleball and tennis to resume as singles games only.

Order

• Order to shelter in place
• Appendix A
• Appendix B-1
• Appendix B-2
• Appendix C

News

• Childcare, camps available to more workers under new shelter in place order, May 27, 2020
• Tennis and pickleball courts reopen for singles play only, May 22, 2020
• As COVID-19 cases stabilize, curbside retail and manufacturing can re-open, May 18, 2020
• Joint statement from Bay Area Health Officers regarding significant progress on COVID-19 indicators and next steps for reopening, May 18, 2020

Shelter in Place Update
April 29, 2020 | Superseded

Extended shelter in place order through May 31 and relaxed rules on a limited number of activities. Allowed all construction and created new permissible category of 'outdoor businesses.'

Order

• Shelter in place through May 31
• Appendix A
• Appendix B-1
• Appendix B-2

Resources

• Summary of changes
• Indicators for assessing progress

News

• Seven Bay Area Health Officers will extended shelter-in-place orders April 27, 2020
• Regional shelter-in-place orders extended as some rules ease April 29, 2020
• Skate park reopens; athletic courts remain closed May 4, 2020
• As construction resumes, new protections in place May 5, 2020

Mandatory face coverings
April 17, 2020 | Superseded

Requires everyone to wear face coverings over their nose and mouth at businesses, when seeking health care, and when using or waiting in line for shared transportation.

Order

• Text of order
• Exhibit A

News

• Face coverings now required for customers and workers in essential businesses April 17, 2020
• Face covering and social distancing requirements for businesses April 20, 2020
• Face covering requirements start Wednesday April 21, 2020

Shelter in place expansion
March 31, 2020 | Superseded

Extended shelter in place to May 3 and further restricted allowed activities.

Order

• Text of order
• Appendix A

• English: 8.5x11 | 11x17
• Spanish: 8.5x11 | 11x17

News

• Shelter-in-place to be extended to May 1 March 30, 2020
• Health Officers extended, update stay-at-home order with new restrictions through May 3 March 31, 2020
• New restrictions on allowed construction April 3, 2020
• Access land use and building permit services remotely during shelter in place April 10, 2020

Shelter in place order
March 16, 2020 | Superseded

Required everyone to stay home except for essential activities.

Order

• Order to shelter in place

News

• Seven Bay Area jurisdictions order residents to stay home March 16, 2020
• Stay home to protect our community, especially the vulnerable March 19, 2020
• Some parking enforcement suspended through April 7 March 22, 2020
• Play structures, athletic courts and fields closed to enforce social distancing March 24, 2020
• Construction and development during shelter in place March 26, 2020

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