Northam delays Phase I of COVID-19 recovery for Northern VirginiaWTOP/WDC. May 12, 2020
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam made it official on Tuesday: Much of Northern Virginia will delay the easing of public-health restrictions for two weeks.
In a statement Tuesday, Northam’s office said Executive Order 62 will let Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties; the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Manassas and Manassas Park; and the towns of Dumfries, Herndon, Leesburg and Vienna (Northern Virginia Region) to remain in what’s called Phase Zero until one minute before midnight on the night of Thursday, May 28.
The rest of Virginia will enter the new phase on Friday.
The move came after Northam pointed out at a briefing Monday the differences between the case loads of Northern Virginia and the rest of the state. Northern Virginia leaders are “just as anxious as the rest of us … to ease these restrictions,†he had said. “But they’re not there yet.â€
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On any given day, Northam said, about 70% of Virginia’s cases come from the Northern Virginia area. He added that while the rest of Virginia was showing that about 10% of COVID-19 tests were coming back positive, Northern Virginia was at about 25%.
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