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Governor Gretchen Whitmer is expected to announce plans to reopen parts of northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula during a press conference this afternoon.
According to The Detroit News, Whitmer will relax stay-at-home rules and allow bars, restaurants, and retail locations to reopen in 16 northern Michigan counties and the entire Upper Peninsula, which has seen far fewer coronavirus cases than other counties across the state.
Those northern Michigan counties include Alpena, Charlevoix, and Grand Traverse, among others.
Assuming all goes well in those regions, we could see more regions, including the Great Lakes Bay Region, reopening very soon.
[The Detroit News via YouTube]