Illinois governor says masks and social distancing orders will continue indefinitely, until vaccine
May 11, 2020 | Frieda Powers
Illinois residents may not be seeing an end in sight any time soon for coronavirus orders in their state.
Governor J. B. Pritzker doubled down on the lockdown orders in his state, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday that Illinois residents could see weeks of social distancing and wearing masks until he feels the coronavirus is “eradicated.â€
The Democrat governor, who has come under fire over his stay-at-home order, announced a five-phase reopening plan and an updated order at the beginning of the month which goes through at least May 29.
“We are being very careful,†Pritzker told Tapper on “State of the Union†Sunday.
“We have a 28-day period in May in which we’re monitoring these numbers. On May 1, I changed our stay-at-home order to make sure we reopened our state parks and kept people socially distant, put a lot of rules in. We opened golf courses, but only for very small groups going through it, no carts, everybody has to have their own clubs and everybody has to have masks,†he added.
“Everybody across the state has to wear a face covering in public,†the Democrat said. “We’ve done a lot to make sure we’re keeping these numbers moving in the right direction. And we will not reopen unless we meet all of the standards that I’ve set for doing so.â€
He claimed the state was “going it alone†as they have “not been counting on the White House, because there have been too many situations in which they’ve made promises not delivered.â€
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