Latest Health Order Changes Announced
Starting May 1, everyone must wear face coverings anywhere in public they come within 6 feet of another person, or whenever they enter a business.
Starting May 1, the County is relaxing more restrictions for parks and golf courses if they can enforce social distancing. Operators of a park or golf course need to create and post a plan for how they will do that.
The County will allow:
Parks to reopen parking lots, with limitations.
Park visitors to sit, lie down, picnic if they practice social distancing.
Members of a family or household to play active sports, such as basketball or volleyball.
However, park operators may have their own restrictions. Check before visiting.
Recreational boating on the ocean, bays and lakes is allowed for members of a household.
Golf courses that follow the safety protocol can reopen. Instruction and sit-down food service are not allowed. Golf carts are allowed only to meet ADA requirements.
Beach parking lots need to remain closed.
Businesses
Businesses and organizations that provide critical infrastructure are exempted, including health care and public health, public safety, food and agriculture and media.
Businesses allowed to stay open must also practice social distancing and encourage employees to work from home if possible. They must also suspend requiring employees to provide doctors’ permission to stay home.
All employees of these essential businesses that have contact with the public must wear facial coverings: supermarkets, grocery stores, gas stations, convenience stores, restaurants, pharmacies, childcare facilities that serve food, banks and public transportation.
Report essential workers not wearing face coverings
Businesses must refuse service to anyone not wearing a face covering.
A business selling food must have a current permit to sell food from the County Department of Environmental Health.
All businesses that are open need to post their social distancing plan. You can use this template.
Starting May 8, employees of all essential businesses must wear facial coverings.
Read more about face coverings here on SanDiegoCounty.gov
Read more about the latest health order here on SanDiegoCounty.gov
