- May 21: Campgrounds and camping
- May 22: Horse racing
- May 26: The BMV (for certain services), gyms and fitness centers, no-contact and low-contact sports and pools (this does not include amusement parks)
- May 31: Childcare and day camps
Gov. DeWine was originally slated to announce updates to childcare Monday but tweeted, “Childcare: We will not be making an announcement today. We’re still working on it. It’s very important that we get this right. We don’t want to announce a date until we have the protocols in place. We’re focusing on the safety of the kids, their families, and the employees.”
In selecting the reopening date of May 31, Gov. DeWine said that they have used the best medical knowledge and other expertise they can find to make important decisions regarding how childcare will look in the time of COVID-19.
“Our goal is very simple and that is to do everything we can to protect the children in childcare, the workers and all the families,” he said. “We want to have the safest childcare system in the nation — one that nurtures the health and continued growth and development of our young people and one that protects the health and safety of our childcare workers and teachers.”
You can read the full sector-specific guidelines regarding childcare reopening, including any changes to drop-off policies, staff-to-child ratios, daily symptom checks, how childcare services will handle handwashing and feeding, physical changes to rooms (like room dividers) and more, at coronavirus.ohio.gov.
The public was also interested to learn when camping and pools would reopen because of the approaching Memorial Day holiday.
Details for camping and campground reopening protocols can be found here. Some campgrounds have stayed open, but they will be reopening completely across the state starting May 26.
The pool reopening date applies to public pools and club pools — those that are regulated by public health departments. This does not apply to amusement parks or water parks.
Lt. Gov. Jon Husted also relayed information about the reopening of gyms and fitness centers and non-contact sports — golf, softball, baseball, paddle sports. He said their sector-specific opening guidance will be available online later today on the Responsible RestartOhio page.
This article appears in May 13-19, 2020.
Love it! It’s odd that no one comments on the good news that we are reopening and only when there is negative news. Its odd how that always happens here.
you are correct . I am glad to see us coming back to life. Be smart and safe
Here’s what’s gonna happen, because I’ve already seen it. Every establishment will piously post their guidelines promptly at the door or right over the bar or whatever, and then they will be completely ignored in practice. So you will see a lot of old, fat white guys who are on Lipitor and Amlodipine, packed shoulder to shoulder at every bar in Brook Park, congratulating themselves about how they didn’t let some flu close America. Then the next morning, they will start clearing their throats and maybe ask their wives for a nice, hot tea. I’m sure it will be nothing. I bet it just goes away in a few days…
Thats fine. Could they get COVID. yes, Don’t you think that is their liberty tho? And even if they do get COVID, they are the ones who took the chance to do that and with the death rate being less than 1%, hell most likely be fine. But yes, could get sick. but hey, people get sick every year. World doesnt shut down.
Yes it is someone’s liberty to get Covid. Problem is they will give it someone in the grocery store checkout lane. They will be sick, not know it and exercising their liberty to not wear a mask.
Their liberties can not cause harm to others.