Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer extended the state of emergency issued amid the COVID-19 outbreak as armed protesters gathered at the capitol building in Lansing on Thursday calling for businesses to reopen.
April 30 (UPI) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer extended the state of emergency in response to COVID-19 in the state until May 28 on Thursday, as armed protesters gathered at the capitol building to call for the state to reopen.
Whitmer signed three executive orders extending the state of emergency after the state’s Republican-controlled legislature voted against continuing the emergency and disaster declaration that was set to expire at midnight Friday.
The emergency order grants Whitmer the ability to issue executive orders and is separate from the state’s stay-at-home order, which is set still set on May 15.
