Coulter: Health Division Extends Orders To Protect Essential Employees And Businesses To Control COVID-19 Outbreak

Pontiac, Michigan – The Oakland County Health Division today issued an emergency order requiring essential businesses to screen all employees for illness, exposure to COVID-19 and establish a social distancing protocol for customers and employees to reduce the transmission of the coronavirus.

Oakland County Executive David Coulter made the announcement today during a remote news conference from the L. Brooks Patterson Executive Office Building in Waterford. The media was asked to either phone in or follow it live on Facebook. The order builds on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s “Stay home, stay safe” order issued Monday.