Governor Gretchen Whitmer has extended her stay-at-home executive order through April 30th.
The governor called this “a hard month” as known-COVID-19-related deaths topped one thousand people in Michigan. The governor said that’s why she extended her stay-home executive order. The new order includes stricter social distancing rules to reduce foot traffic at retail establishments. It also bans travel between residential and vacation homes.
“You can see that we are in control of our fate here and it depends on every one of us doing our part.”
The governor also said race and income appear connected to numbers of COVID-19 cases and mortality. She named a commission to examine those disparities.
Some Republicans in the Legislature criticized Whitmer’s extension of the stay-home order as unnecessary and harmful to workers and businesses.