Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said he's confident Illinois can safely reopen without relying much on federal support
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, whose state has the fourth-most coronavirus cases in the country, said on Sunday he's confident Illinois can safely reopen without relying much on federal support.
"I have not been counting on the White House because there have been too many situations in which they have made promises, not delivered," the Democratic governor said on CNN's "State of the Union.""We're going it alone, as the White House has left all the states to do," he said, explaining that Illinois is working to grow its testing rate to 64,000 tests a day.
The rate at which people are testing positive is actually stable or going down in Illinois, Pritzker added. But the state will continue to enforce social distancing rules and wearing face coverings in public., which still includes a stay-at-home order with some nonessential businesses reopening for pickup and delivery.
Phase three, which would allow of retail businesses excluding restaurants and bars to reopen, would come once Illinois meets the standards he's set out, Pritzker said, including requirements that infection rates, hospitalizations and demands for intensive care unit beds be stable or declining.
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