NEW CITY – Rockland County Executive Ed Day, Monday, issued a declaration of a state of emergency in the county order to take additional actions to deal with the coronavirus. The state of emergency will be in effect for 30 days, through April 15, and may be extended at that time.
Rockland County now has a total of 18 positive cases of COVID-19.
There are four orders included as part of this declaration:
All public and private schools that serve grades K-12 must suspend all classroom and extracurricular functions for two weeks. This order may be extended at the continued request of the superintendents. Private schools will have an additional day to implement this order.
Only two “commercial units” (for example, two bottles of hand sanitizer) may be purchased from the list of restricted items that can be sold to a household or business per day.
People who are awaiting COVID-19 test results must stay home and avoid interaction with the public until their test results are returned, at which time they will receive further instructions from their physicians or public health authorities.
The order also limits buffets and salad bars to pre-packaging their food for sale.
“We are taking these steps in service to the health and safety of our children and to ensure that all of our residents have a chance to purchase the medicine, soap, cleaning products, food, baby formula and even toilet paper that they need,” said Day. “As we all take these necessary precautions we must not forget about our friends and neighbors. It is more important than ever that we work together and support those who are struggling. We are embarking on a very difficult journey, but I have faith in all of you, my friends and neighbors. Together we can overcome anything that stands in our way. We did it before and we will do it again.”
