Shelby County creates reopening plan, but provides no start date

Published April 29, 2020 5:00pm ET



Tennessee’s Shelby County unveiled its Back to Business plan to reopen the economy, but it has not announced a start date.

The county, the city of Memphis and six suburban municipalities announced they will reopen the economy in phases, but they will not enter into phase one until the county has a flat or negative growth rate in COVID-19 cases for 14 consecutive days and meets certain testing and capacity benchmarks.

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