WASHINGTON, April 20 — President Donald Trump's administration clashed with state governors yesterday over lifting coronavirus lockdowns, in a standoff embittered by his support for protests against the restrictions. Vice President Mike Pence said that every US state has the ability to do enough...
Health care workers stand in the street in counter-protest to hundreds of people who gathered at the State Capitol to demand the stay-at-home order be lifted in Denver, Colorado April 19, 2020. — Reuters pic
But some state governors said testing capacity was far behind levels needed to avoid sparking new outbreaks of the virus. “Phase one” ends stay-at-home restrictions for healthy people, and allows restaurants, cinemas, sporting venues, places of worships and gyms to re-open with physical distancing. Gretchen Whitmer, Democratic governor of Michigan, said “we could double or even triple the number of tests that we're executing daily if we had the swabs and reagents” and called for more federal government help.
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