Broward County has announced a 9-day curfew beginning on Thursday, December 24th and running through Monday, January 4, 2021. The curfew will be in place from midnight to 5:00 a.m. each day. However, On Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, the curfew will run from 1:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. The curfew is in response to the uptick in COVID-19 positive cases and in an effort to help stop the spread of the virus in our area. Additional information:
Exceptions to the curfew include:
- Active-duty police, fire rescue, and first responders
- News media
- Delivery and transportation drivers
- Government employees and government officials
- Persons seeking emergency medical care
- Medical, health care, and utility service personnel
- Persons going from their homes directly to their place of employment or returning directly to their homes from their place of employment
- Persons walking their dogs or other pets within two hundred and fifty feet (250) feet of their residences
- Persons traveling to/from any professional sporting event
- Persons traveling directly between their homes after commercial travel or ending at and an airport, seaport, train or bus terminal in connection with commercial air, sea, train, or bus travel
- Persons returning to their homes after one-way vehicular travel of more than 100 miles
- Persons traveling to/from any religious service
