Discarded surgical mask in front of the Southern District courthouse in Manhattan. Both Southern and Eastern District courts barred people who have traveled to China, South Korea, Japan, Italy and Iran in the past 14 days. Photo: Ryland West/NYLJ
People who have been exposed to coronavirus are not allowed to enter federal courthouses in the Eastern District of New York, according to an administrative order signed by Chief Judge Roslynn Mauskopf.
The order is similar to one issued by the chief judge in the Southern District of New York. The Southern District went one step further and asked people to avoid the courthouse if they were suffering from “fever, cough or shortness or breath,” identified as key symptoms of COVID-19, the illness associated with the novel coronavirus.
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