President Trump laid out a three-phase process for governors to lead their states out of economic lockdown, even as his scientific advisers described a “new normal” in which the public would have to remain constantly vigilant for outbreaks of the novel coronavirus.

The guidance leaves decisions in the hands of governors but lays out a series of checkpoints, starting with a decrease in confirmed COVID-19 cases over a 14-day period, before restrictions are lifted.

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