LANSING, Mich. — Governor Gretchen Whitmer will provide an update on the state's response efforts to COVID-19.
Whitmer will be joined by Chief Medical Executive Dr. Joneigh Khaldun.
Bars and restaurants will resume service on June 8 after the governor announced that she is lifting the stay-at-home order.
Day camps for children and swimming pools will be able to open on June 8, as well. The state will go into phase 4, and Whitmer said the goal is to get to phase 5 by the Fourth of July.
She also plans to move regions 6 and 8, the Traverse City area and Upper Peninsula, into phase 5.
Phase 4 of the MI Safe Start Plan is called "improving" and occurs "when the number of new cases and deaths has fallen for a period of time, but overall case levels are still high.
The plan is for the state to quickly identify, trace and contain new cases with testing and contact tracing.
Additional Coronavirus information and resources:
Click here for a page with resources including a COVID-19 overview from the CDC, details on cases in Michigan, a timeline of Governor Gretchen Whitmer's orders since the outbreak, coronavirus' impact on Southeast Michigan, and links to more information from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC and the WHO.
View a global coronavirus tracker with data from Johns Hopkins University.
Find out how you can help businesses and restaurants struggling during the pandemic.
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