Statewide — Starting April 6, decisions about venue capacity and social gatherings will be made by local officials. Customers in restaurants, bars, and nightclubs will no longer be required by the state to be seated. Six feet of spacing between tables and other seating will still be recommended as is the spacing between non-household parties. Governor Eric Holcomb made this announcement Tuesday evening to the state on the one-year anniversary of shutting the state down due to the pandemic.
The statewide face-covering mandate will become a mask advisory on April 6. Face coverings will remain mandatory in all state buildings and facilities and in all vaccination and Covid testing sites until further notice. K-12 schools will continue under current requirements through the remainder of the 2020-21 school year.
Local governments, private businesses, and other entities may institute more stringent guidelines. The Indiana Department of Health will continue to provide county-level, color-coded metrics to provide easy to understand information about whether virus levels are increasing or decreasing locally.
The state public health emergency will be renewed for another 30 days, beginning April 1. This declaration allows the state to act quickly if conditions take a turn for the worse and allows the state to continue to access hundreds of millions of federal dollars to support Hoosiers recovering from the impacts of the pandemic.
