Timeline
Beginning Saturday, May 1, 2021, NC State Extension may begin operating under the following guidance provided by North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper in Executive Order 209:

• Mass Gathering Limits are set at no more than 100 people indoors and 200 people outdoors.
• In publicly accessible indoor facilities, the Mass Gathering limit applies per room of the facility.
• Mass Gathering limits include a requirement of social distancing, defined as – maintaining a minimum of 6-feet between individuals who are not members of the same family.

Wearing of Masks and Social Distancing

• Wear a Face Covering over the nose and mouth inside all public settings such as grocery stores, pharmacies, or other retail or public-serving businesses.
• Although not required, people who have not been fully vaccinated should wear a Face Covering outdoors when they cannot maintain at least six (6) feet of social distancing from non-household members.
• All individuals should wear Face Coverings outdoors in crowded, dense, and higher-risk settings.
• Maintain at least six (6) feet social distancing from other individuals, with the exception of family or household members.

Meeting Facilities and Conference Centers

• The facility must limit Guests to fifty percent (50%) of the stated fire capacity for each indoor and outdoor space controlled by the facility. For rooms or spaces without a stated fire capacity, the limit on Guests is twelve (12) per one thousand (1000) square feet, rounded up.
• Social Distancing Required. The facility must limit the number of Guests in the space so that groups can stay six (6) feet apart.

Livestock Shows (Under guidance provided in EO-209 for Arenas)

• Guests must be in seats except to enter, leave, use amenities, visit the restroom and obtain food or drink.
• The facility must limit Guests to fifty percent (50%) of the stated fire capacity for each indoor and outdoor space controlled by the facility. For rooms or spaces without a stated fire capacity, the limit on Guests is twelve (12) per one thousand (1000) square feet, rounded up.
• Social Distancing Required. The facility must limit the number of Guests in the space so that groups can stay six (6) feet apart.

Livestock Sales (Under guidance provided in EO-209 for Retail events)

• Occupancy is limited to 100% of Stated Fire Capacity.
• For spaces without a stated fire capacity, no more than twenty-four (24) Guests for every one thousand (1000) square feet of 16 the location’s total square footage, including the parts of the location that are not accessible to Guests).
• Limit the number of Guests in the store so that everyone can stay six (6) feet apart.

Previous guidance on facility cleaning, documentation of participation for contact tracing, and quarantine of sick individuals continue to be in effect, until further notice.

The requirement that all participants/spectators should have a temperature check prior to entry of the program/event facility is no longer in effect. In addition, pre-entry/registration for events is no longer a requirement.

All program/event participants/spectators should be asked a set of three questions (see below) prior to entering a facility at which the program/event is to occur.

4-H Spectator/Participant Symptom Screening Checklist

PLEASE NOTE that the following form can be adapted for other events beyond 4-H.

To protect all participants and spectators attending a 4-H event/program, each participant/spectator should be asked the following questions prior to entering the facility. If the participant/spectator answers yes to any of the following questions, they should be asked to leave the event/program.

1. Have you had close contact (within 6 feet for at least 15 minutes) in the last 14 days with someone diagnosed with COVID-19, or has any health department or health care provider been in contact with you and advised you to quarantine?
   • Yes
   • No
2. In the last 14 days, have you had any of these symptoms?
   • Fever
   • Chills
   • Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
   • New cough
   • New loss of taste or smell
3. In the last 14 days, have you been diagnosed with COVID-19?
   • Yes
   • No

If a worker has been diagnosed with, has symptoms of, or has been exposed to COVID-19, they should go home, stay away from other people and call their doctor or local health department.

Fully vaccinated people (i.e. at least 2 weeks after getting their second dose in a 2-dose series or one-dose of a single-dose series) with no COVID-like symptoms do not need to quarantine following an exposure to someone with COVID-19.