Governor Sisolak released his Phase 1 implementation today and will reopen the economy this Saturday, May 9th after the COVID-19 shutdown. Speaking at 3:00 p.m. today, Sisolak announced that salons and barbershops can open, along with restaurants, pubs, wineries, bars & breweries that serve food under a 50% capacity restriction, excluding bar seating.
Sisolak also discussed the expanded capacity to test asymptomatic patients with a goal of testing 4,000 people a day in pop-up testing sites across individual counties. The testing will allow for specific contract tracing to track down any clusters, isolate and minimize potential cases, and prevent future outbreaks. Sisolak said, “it is extremely important when we identify a positive case we can follow up, do the tracing and eliminate the surge of any cases.
The Governor provided Guidance for Businesses and Employers that includes:
- Businesses should encourage customers to wear FACE COVERINGS.
- Continue to encourage TELEWORK, whenever possible and feasible with business operations.
- If possible, have employees RETURN TO WORK IN PHASES.
- CLOSE COMMON AREAS where personnel are likely to congregate and interact, or enforce strict social distancing protocols.
- Follow guidance from the NEVADA LABOR COMMISSIONER regarding sick leave policies.
- Strongly consider SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS for employees who are members of a vulnerable population.
- Consider encouraging employees to do a SELF-ASSESSMENT each day in order to check if they have any COVID-19 type symptoms (fever, cough or shortness of breath).
- Remind employees to STAY HOME WHEN SICK, use cough and sneeze etiquette, and practice hand hygiene.
- Frequently perform enhanced ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANING of commonly touched surfaces.
- Social Distancing & Sanitation Practices in Businesses - All businesses should consider proactive measures to help protect staff and customers, including but not limited to: Implementing separate operating hours for the elderly and vulnerable customers, designating with signage, tape or by other means, six feet of spacing for employees, customers, clients or members to maintain appropriate distance; having hand sanitizer, and sanitizing products, readily available for employees and customers.
Guidelines for Restaurants: Restaurants are strongly encouraged to continue curbside, delivery, and/or pickup operations and are allowed to open dine-in under strict social distancing requirements:
- Self-service stations (salad bars, beverage stations, etc.) are NOT permitted
- Restaurants shall require employees to wear face coverings and should encourage customers to wear face coverings, to the maximum extent practicable
- In-person or on-premises dining is limited to no more than 50% of available seating capacity, excluding bar seating (table and bar top seating).
- Reservations should be required when practicable to better achieve social distancing requirements
- Tables or available booths must be spaced at least 6 feet apart.
- Bar tops & bar areas within restaurants remain closed (can serve drinks at table)
- If waiting to be seated, patrons must wait outside and practice social distancing
- Pubs, wineries, bars, and breweries that serve food can continue curbside, pick-up, and/or carry out operations. If the establishment is licensed to and serves food in a restaurant-like setting, it may open up to do so based on general restaurant restrictions (above) with bar-tops and bar areas closed to drinking and eating
Barbershops, hair salons and nail salons may open under strict social distancing requirements:
- Partitions or walls between each chair/workstation are strongly encouraged.
- If there are partitions or walls between each chair/workstation, then each chair/workstation can be used at any given time.
- If there are no partitions or walls between each chair/workstation, the business must only use every other chair/workstation or arrange seating to be at least 6 feet apart to create separation and achieve social distancing.
- Services shall be provided by appointment only.
- Customers waiting for appointment must wait outside and practice social distancing.
- Stylists, technicians, barbers and other employees must wear face coverings. Customers or clients should wear face coverings to the extent practicable.
The entire document can be viewed here and as more information is released, we will continue to update this story.
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