President Donald Trump is ordering the immediate reopening of churches and other places of worship that have been closed amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Trump said Thursday that he was consulting with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to craft guidelines for the safe reopening.
During his Friday announcement, Trump noted that liquor stores and abortion clinics had been allowed to remain open during the near nation-wide shutdown because they qualified as"essential" services but churches didn't."Our people want to go back to church on Sundays," Trump said during an appearance in Michigan Thursday."Our churches want to take care of their parishioners, their people that go to worship.
Trump's push to return churchgoers to pews that have been empty for weeks comes just days after churches in Georgia and Texas, both states with Republican governors, announced that they would close again after experiencing acute outbreaks of the virus after they opened. The CDC released a report this week highlighting a coronavirus outbreak in Arkansas linked to a church community.
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