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CORONAVIRUS IN GEORGIA: Shelter-in-place order set to expire Thursday night

By WSBTV.com News Staff
By WSBTV.com News Staff

GEORGIA — ATLANTA — Here’s a roundup of what’s happening so far today, April 30: (Click here for the previous day)

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  • Gov. Brian Kemp announced he will formally extend the Public Health State of Emergency through June 12, 2020. Additionally, he is signing order to require medically-fragile and elderly Georgians to continue shelter in place until June 12. Elderly Georgians are considered ages 65 and older.
  • Delta Air Lines announced customers will be required to wear a face mask or appropriate face covering throughout their travel starting May 4.
  • Here’s how our local governments plan to reopen when the order does end.
  • Georgia has hit the mark of 25,885 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 1,100 deaths. The Georgia Department of Public Health updated its website for more hourly numbers.
  • Asymptomatic people living in select Georgia counties can now be tested. Those counties include: Baker, Butts, Calhoun, Clay, Crisp, Dougherty, Dooly, Early, Hall, Lee, Macon, Marion, Miller, Mitchell, Randolph, Sumter, Terrell, Turner, Upson, Wilcox and Worth. Free screenings must be scheduled a through the AU Health ExpressCare app.
  • Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms gave an update on COVID-19 today. She says 44 city employees have tested positive for COVID-19. Fourteen of them are in the Atlanta Police Department, seven are in Atlanta Fire & Rescue and ten in Atlanta Watershed. Crime is down 34 percent since the pandemic outbreak.
  • New unemployment numbers are expected Thursday morning. Last week, the Georgia Department of Labor said it has already processed more than 1 million unemployment claims. That is more than the past three years combined.
  • Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced his office has received a record 1 million requests for absentee ballots. Here are how elections for in-person voting will look like in June.
  • Los Angeles-based CORE Response and the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation on Thursday plan to open a coronavirus testing site at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The testing center, which will operate at the Home Depot Backyard adjacent to the stadium, will offer free tests to people with appointments from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The site will operate Monday-Friday for at least the next several weeks.

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