Although Prince Edward Island declared a public health emergency on March 16, it has not issued a general order closing businesses.
The government has stated that anyone who must access essential services is to practice safe social distancing and good hand hygiene and that only one person per household should be going out to get groceries or supplies from essential services. To that end, “essential services” are described as services the interruption of which would endanger the life, health or personal safety of the whole or part of the population.