Delaware’s government is taking its first steps to reopen nearly all business in the state, raising the prospect its most prominent private citizen, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, may finally emerge from his home.

“It’s not going to be the old normal when we start the return,” Gov. John Carney last week said at a briefing in Wilmington. “It’s going to be a new normal that requires social distancing, requires these hygiene practices, until there is a vaccine.”