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deaths both globally and in Minnesota require us to continue our measures to slow the spread of this pandemic. Slowing the community spread of COVID-19 is critical to ensuring that our healthcare facilities remain able to accommodate those who require intensive medical intervention. This Executive Order is consistent with nationwide efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19. As of April 7, 2020, forty-one other states and the District of Columbia representing almost 318 million Americans have issued orders or public health directives closing non -essential businesses or limiting residents from participating in non -essential activities. Ten of these states have already extended or renewed these orders and directives in recognition of the ongoing need for proactive measures to contain the spread of COVID-19. Limiting activities to only those that are most essential and practicing social distancing at all times are vital tools required to mitigate the community spread of COVID-19 in Minnesota and nationwide. Executive Order 20-20 set forth a number of Critical Sectors based on guidance from the U.S. Depailment of Homeland Security. That Guidance has since been updated and revised. This order adopts and relies on the March 28, 2020 Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce: Ensuring Community and National Resilience in COVID-19 Response, Version 2.0 ("Updated CISA Guidance" —attached to, and incorporated into, this Executive Order). The Updated CISA Guidance identifies workers who conduct a range of operations and services that are essential to continued critical infrastructure viability. This federal guidance provides a baseline for Minnesota's efforts to ensure critical infrastructure and services are maintained while slowing the spread of COVID-19. In Minnesota Statutes 2019, section 12.02, the Minnesota Legislature conferred upon the Governor emergency powers "in order to (1) ensure that preparations of this state will be adequate to deal with disasters, (2) generally protect the public peace, health, and safety, and (3) preserve the lives and property of the people of the state." Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes 2019, section 12.21, subdivision 1, the Governor has general authority to control the state's emergency management as well as carry out the provisions of Minnesota's Emergency Management Act. Minnesota Statutes 2019, section 12.21, subdivision 3(7), authorizes the Governor to cooperate with federal and state agencies in "matters pertaining to the emergency management of the state and nation." This includes "the direction or control of ... the conduct of persons in the state, including entrance or exit from any stricken or threatened public place, occupancy of facilities, and ... public meetings or gatherings." Pursuant to subdivision 3 of that same section, the Governor may "make, amend, and rescind the necessary orders and rules to carry out the provisions" of Minnesota Statutes 2019, Chapter 12. When approved by the Executive Council and filed in the Office of the Secretary of State, such orders and rules have the force and effect of law during the peacetime emergency. Any inconsistent rules or ordinances of any agency or political subdivision of the state are suspended during the pendency of the emergency. For these reasons, I order as follows: 1. Beginning on Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at 11:59 pm through Sunday, May 03, 2020 at 11:59 pm, all persons currently living within the State of Minnesota are ordered to stay at home or in their place of residence except to engage in the Activities and 2