Within “a day or two” after a statewide stay-at-home order is lifted, Shawnee County health officer Gianfranco Pezzino anticipates he will allow the reopening of most businesses here that were ordered closed to fight the spread of COVID-19, he said Tuesday.
“We want to send people back to work,” Pezzino said during a podcast on CJOnline.com.
He indicated local health officials plan to work in stages to remove the various restrictions currently in place.
“There’s going to be several steps in 14-day increments that can only happen if nothing bad really takes place in the previous period,” he said.
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