MONTGOMERY– As a reminder, Alabama is currently under a limited, narrowly-focused state of emergency for covid-19. Here is an update on that:
The current narrowly-focused state of emergency for covid-19 is aimed at easing burdens on health care providers and making government more responsive. The proclamation was issued on August 13, 2021 and is set to expire this Tuesday, October 12. That is being amended to end on October 31, 2021.
Alabama is making strides on the Covid-front as more and more Alabamians get their covid-19 vaccines and as hospitalizations and cases decline. Between early September and late this week, the number of newly reported covid-19 cases per day in Alabama dropped more than 70 percent, and the number of covid-19 patients in Alabama hospitals dropped by about 60 percent, based on seven-day averages of cases and hospitalizations as reported daily by the Alabama Department of Public Health.
STATE OF ALABAMA
PROCLAMATION
BY THE GOVERNOR
WHEREAS, on August 13, 2021, I declared the existence of a state public health emergency in the State of Alabama based on the disease known as COVID-19;
WHEREAS that proclamation included various provisions designed to assist in preventing the spread of COVID-19 and in mitigating the consequences of COVID-19; and
WHEREAS the COVID-19 virus persists in Alabama and the nation, and it continues to present a serious threat to public health, taxing Alabama hospitals, many of which were already struggling to staff their facilities;
NOW, THEREFORE, 1, Kay Ivey, Governor of the State of Alabama, pursuant to the relevant provisions of the Alabama Emergency Management Act of 1955, as amended, Ala. Code SS 31-9-1 et seq., do hereby extend the state public health emergency proclaimed on August 13, 2021, through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, October 31, 2021, unless otherwise terminated or extended in writing. All provisions included in the August 13, 2021 proclamation shall remain in full force and effect according to the terms of that proclamation.
IN WITNESS m–1EREOF, 1 have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal to be affixed by the Secretary of State at the State Capitol in the City of Montgomery on this 8th day of October 2021.
Kay Ivey Governor
ATTESTED:
Jo H. Merrill
Secretary of State
