Throughout the pandemic, the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment has been handing out citations to local businesses violating COVID-19 guidelines. Since our last update, on January 20, the agency has remained busy, ticketing and/or shutting down 65 enterprises, for a total of eighty enforcement actions so far in 2021.
The most recent citation, against E3 Fitness, a gym on South Broadway, was filed on April 15, the day before the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment s dial dashboard, which dictated safety protocols for counties across the state, went from compulsory to advisory. While Denver is at Level Orange on the dial as of today, April 28, its own revised regulations allow businesses to operate at Level Blue, with lower restrictions on capacity limits and other loosened guidelines.