Underway in Lansing...
@GovWhitmer holding a press conference detailing her plan for restarting public schools in Michigan.
#COVID19 update as well.
Gov. Whitmer highlighting #COVID19 outbreak of 100+ new cases via crowding inside Harper's bar in #EastLansing, leading to spread to a party in #GrossePointe (as reported by @freep's @TBaldas)
"We have to learn from this instance here in Michigan."
freep.com/story/news/loc…
Whitmer urges Michigan residents to have small gatherings this #FourthOfJuly weekend, avoid "a crowded sand bar up north."
At press conference in the George Romney building, Democratic @GovWhitmer praises Republicans @MittRomney, @VP Mike Pence and ex-VP Dick Cheney for sporting masks in public.
"We've got to take the politics out of mask-wearing in this country and it starts here in Michigan,"
NEW: @GovWhitmer's MI Safe Schools Roadmap will require Michigan preK-12 students to wear masks on buses and in school hallways.
Students grades 6-12 will have to wear masks in class.
Read the plan here:
michigan.gov/documents/whit…
Masks and face coverings for K-5 students are "strongly recommended" in the governor's plan. (Page 22: michigan.gov/documents/whit…)
—> @DrKhaldun says #COVID19 contact tracing has found an average of four contacts of every new positive case of the coronavirus. She urges residents to answer phone calls from public health agencies.
"We still have time to avoid a surge in cases," @DrKhaldun says, noting the number of new daily cases of #COVID19 has risen in recent weeks.
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