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2021 Detroit Grand Prix will have limited fans, features amid pandemic
Read full article: 2021 Detroit Grand Prix will have limited fans, features amid pandemicThe Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear is coming back to Belle Isle this June after being cancelled in 2020, and restrictions will be in place to help prevent coronavirus spread.
Many Michigan COVID restrictions eased starting today
Read full article: Many Michigan COVID restrictions eased starting todayThe state of Michigan is easing COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in several areas including restaurants and bars. Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced the restrictions on indoor dining had been revised. Customers must still wear masks when they’re not seated at their tables. Mask mandate remainsAll persons participating in gatherings are required to wear a face mask under the Michigan “Gatherings and Face Mask Order.”Here are the face mask requirements listed under the order:Face mask requirement at gatherings:(a) All persons participating in gatherings are required to wear a face mask. An individual’s verbal representation that they are not wearing a face mask because they fall within a specified exception, however, may be accepted.
Michigan Gov. Whitmer: Goal is to test 450,000 residents for virus in May
Read full article: Michigan Gov. Whitmer: Goal is to test 450,000 residents for virus in May“Until there is a vaccine, social distancing is really the best and only tool that we have to prevent spread. The federal government is helping the state aim for 30,000 daily coronavirus tests, Foster said. Michigan ranks 18th-highest among states on the number of tests per 1,000 residents, according to an Associated Press analysis of data collected by the COVID Tracking Project. “Aggressive testing, contact tracing and isolation will be the only way we will get ahead of this disease,” Khaldun said. The number of new coronavirus cases in Michigan grew slowly again, rising less than 1% to a total of about 47,500 since March.