Governor opens some businesses in new Safer-at-Home order on Monday

Gov. Tate Reeves will replace the current shelter-in-place order with a safer-at-home order on Monday, April 27 for two weeks until Monday, May 11.

The order:

• Urges all Mississippians to stay home except for essential travel.
• Asks the most vulnerable to continue to shelter in place, including the elderly.
• Continues to ban all non-essential gatherings of 10 or more.
• Allows most closed, non-essential businesses to reopen, including retail stores, with a limited number of people in the stores at any one time up to a maximum of half the store’s capacity.
• Elective medical procedures can resume.
• Pastors are being urged to not resume in-house services.
• Some business categories have to stay closed, especially those that can’t avoid sustained personal contact such as barbershops and salons.
• Casinos will not reopen nor will museums.
• Restaurants still limited to drive-thru, curbside or delivery services.
• Bars remain closed.
• Common areas where people gather remain closed.

The Vicksburg Daily News will provide more information shortly.