Gov. Jared Polis on Monday extended the state s disaster emergency declaration tied to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The extension becomes the 45th executive order issued in 2021, an average of about one a day since the beginning of the year.Â
The first disaster declaration order, D2020 003, was on March 11, 2020. It has since been amended and/or extended 20 times. Those amendments have included directions on the 2020 primary election, moving state dollars from the disaster emergency fund, and setting up the alternative care sites in Grand Junction, the Ranch complex in Loveland, the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, St. Anthony s on 84th in Westminster, and St. Mary Corwin in Pueblo. Those sites have since been dismantled.