Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced plans Thursday to extend his stay-at-home executive order for Illinois residents until the end of May, as the state reported another 123 deaths due to the coronavirus.
That raises the Illinois death toll to 1,688 since the COVID-19 outbreak began. There are also 1,826 new cases, bringing the state’s total count of positive coronavirus cases to
36,934, officials said.
Pritzker highlighted those numbers among the reasons to extend the state’s current stay-at-home order, which was slated to expire April 30.
Next week, Pritzker will sign a modified order effective through May 30 that includes a “phased reopening” of selected state parks, and a requirement for people “to wear a face-covering or a mask when in a public place where they can’t maintain a six-foot social distance,” the governor’s office said.
Additionally, golf courses will be able to open under “strict safety guidelines” set by the Illinois Dept. of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, with social distancing measures implemented.
And retail stores that were not listed as “essential businesses” in Pritzker’s first executive order will be able to reopen to take phone or online orders through pickup outside the store or delivery beginning May 1. That’s intended to help small businesses that have been shuttered.
Greenhouses, garden centers and nurseries will also be able to reopen as essential businesses. And certain elective surgeries for non-life-threatening conditions will be able to begin again. The Illinois Dept. of Public Health is issuing guidelines for surgical centers and hospitals, including proper personal protective equipment requirements and testing of patients to ensure they do not have COVID-19.
“To everyone listening, we are in possibly the most difficult part of this journey,” Pritzker said. “I know how badly we all want our normal lives back. Believe me. If I could make that happen right now I would. But this is the part where we have to dig in and we have to understand that the sacrifices that we’ve made as a state to avoid a worst case scenario are working. And we need to keep going a little while longer to finish the job.”
By Tina Sfondeles
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How bout barbershops??
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DeletePritzker just bankrupted Illinois shame on him I'm moving to Georgia
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Deletebut continue to vote democrat!
DeleteCoronavirus death number are being ginned by including those in Hospice who die, I want to see the death rate from last year this time to the current death rate as many of the folks who have passed were on death's doorstep in nursing homes and probably would ave dies anyway. They don't call nursing homes God's waiting room for nothing.
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The communist leftist are playing this big dummy like a fiddle. The Republican response at the ballot box in November has got to be massive. Obama is behind this con game.
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ReplyDeleteMost of the world is shut down, during this global pandemic. ☹️