On the day Iowa recorded its largest spike in new COVID-19 cases and deaths, Governor Kim Reynolds announced elective surgeries would soon be able to resume and farmers' markets could reopen.
Despite the latest spike in COVID-19 case numbers and deaths, Reynolds said the state was ready to begin discussions on reopening its economy."This is our first step of many to reopening Iowa and getting life and business back to normal as soon as possible," she said.who have not issued statewide stay-at-home orders, despite recommendations from Dr. Anthony Fauci and other members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
Farmers' markets would also be allowed to reopen with social distancing guidelines in place under Friday's new guidelines. Reynolds said the vendors able to resume operations at their market booths would be primarily restricted to those selling produce and that law enforcement officials would be monitoring the markets to ensure six-foot social distancing requirements were being followed, with ticketing possible as a last resort.
"There's a lot of different variables that we'll be looking at, and we'll take a very targeted approach," Reynolds said of the state's latest guidelines."Because of the way that we can monitor [the spread of the virus] in a comprehensive manner, we can start to open things up very responsibly and on a limited basis," she said, adding that officials would continue watching local and statewide data to address hot spots as they appeared.
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