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Georgia governor Brian Kemp said some businesses, including gyms, hair salons and bowling alleys, will be able to reopen as early as this week, the most aggressive state action to reopen business after issuing an earlier stay-at-home order....
Dine-in options at restaurants, private social clubs and theaters will be able to reopen on April 27 “subject to specific social distancing and sanitation mandates,” which will be released in the coming days, Kemp said.Kemp said the state is on track to meet the criteria set by the White House to begin Phase One of the federal government’s plan to reopen states, which
states need to see a downward trajectory of cases within a 14-day period and have a “robust testing program in place for at-risk healthcare workers.”, and if the trend continues, Friday would mark 10 days of declines, which is still less than the White House recommendation. Georgia’s official stay-at-home order ends April 30, but Kemp advised vulnerable populations to stay inside until at least May 13.Stacey Abrams, a Democrat who lost a close election to Kemp in 2018, said the governor’s actions were “ dangerously incompetent.”
“Georgia: 14th highest infection/7th lowest testing rate; less econ resilient & 1000s of low-wage workers already forced to risk their lives to make a living. Weakened healthcare w/closed rural hospitals, no Medicaid expansion & a doctor shortage. Reopen? Dangerously incompetent,” she tweeted.criticism for being one of the last states to issue a stay-at-home order on April 2.
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