As several Southern governors began to reopen their states shuttered by the coronavirus outbreak, some mayors pushed back Tuesday, saying they have yet to see the decline in COVID-19 cases needed to ease stay-at-home orders.
He said Savannah still lacked the wide-scale testing that public health experts say is necessary before shops and businesses can safely reopen.In Atlanta, Georgia’s biggest city, Mayor Keisha Bottoms said she was “perplexed” by the governor’s decision.Kemp joined his fellow Republican governors from South Carolina and Tennessee in announcing partial openings this week even as local authorities continued to grapple with COVID-19 deaths and called for more testing.
“For the good of our state, social distancing must continue, but our economic shutdown cannot,” Lee said.