Nevada governor: Stay at home order to be extended, some outdoor activity restrictions eased
Gov. Steve Sisolak says he plans to extend the state’s stay-at-home order but will begin easing restrictions on retail curbside pickup and outdoor activities after the state’s COVID-19 caseload and deaths plateau.
In an interview on Good Morning America, Sisolak told anchor Amy Robach several details of the state’s yet-to-be-published “United Road Map to Recovery,” but that a stay-at-home order set to expire on Friday would have to be extended “a little bit.”
“We just have not reached exactly where we want to get in the downward trajectory,” he said, according to a transcript published by KTNV-13. “Our statistics have plateaued. We’ve got almost 5,000 cases now in the state of Nevada and 225 fatalities so those numbers have kind of stabilized and hospitalizations and intensive care hospitalizations have begun to decline. And so we are looking forward to continue to bring our economy back to life a little bit.”
The governor previously said he’d be unveiling a more fleshed-out plan on Thursday detailing the state’s steps to slowly re-opening its economy, and announced Tuesday that hospitals were resuming “medically necessary” elective procedures deferred amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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