Type of Intervention: Executive Order, Specific Action
Sectors Involved: Civil Defence, Environment, Local Government, Police and Interior Affairs
Intervention Categories: Individual measures; Social and physical distancing measures; Gatherings, businesses, and services
Level of Jurisdiction: Alberta
Lead People/Agency: Chief Medical Officer of Health
Overview: This order grants an exemption of persons engaged in flood suppression and prevention activities in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo from CMOH Order 07-2020. Specifically, persons identified as exempted may gather in groups of more than 15 people in an outdoor location and may be within 2 metres from one another. Exempted persons must wear personal protective equipment (if available), follow appropriate hygiene, social distancing and other measures to prevent COVID-19 transmission where possible. This intervention is aims to allow people to handle an environmental emergency despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
Full details here: https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/3a6f05b8-b66a-4aa3-b587-505cf0547e42/resource/e0891866-0043-4a2b-8a04-a1796c05ffed/download/health-covid-cmoh-exemption-fort-mcmurray-flood-2020-04-28.pdf
Type of Justification: No justification given