‘Fully open for business:’ Missouri removes all statewide COVID-19 restrictions starting June 16
Updated: 6:59 PM CDT Jun 11, 2020
afternoon, everyone, it is a great day in the state of Missouri. Beautiful day out there. Hope a lot of people are out there enjoying it today. Again, Let me just say this. I want to thank. I am thankful that the protests this week have remained peaceful across the state as they continue today. I had a chance to meet with community leaders from Kansas City, ST Louis and Columbia, an initial meeting with a lot of young activists that were involved in a lot of protests across the state. It was our first meeting, a little bit of a meeting to get to know one another a little bit and kind of really be able to talk issues, to talk about some of the things most of you have already covered. I will say that and then how do we move forward? So that was the initial conversation, and then we will be having a follow up meeting to discuss some of those issues at that point. And there were some issues I want to say that we you know, that we're not going to agree on so some different things. I want to make sure it clear that. But again, it was the process of starting a conversation to see things. What we can do, what we can do. And I appreciate their time, and I value their opinions on that. As you know, Phase one of the Show Me strong recovery plan expires this coming Monday on June 15th. It is truly incredible to think how far Missouri has come since March. At that time, no one knew what to expect. There was a lot of uncertainty, worry and concern concerns that our hospitals would be overwhelmed and that we couldn't have and we wouldn't have enough. I see you beds and ventilators. Concerns over PPE shortages concerns the testing wouldn't be widely available and many, many other concerns. Here we are today, just over 90 days since our first case in Missouri, and I am so proud of our Missouri citizens are Missouri companies and our communities across the state for doing their part and using common sense. Thanks to you, we have overcome all of these challenges and mawr than met are four pillars of reopening Pillar one was testing. We went from testing on Lee, a handful of people each day to an average of approximately 10,000 test per day over the last two weeks. Since April, the 20th weekly testing has increased more than 220%. Pillar two was PP. We continue to receive and distribute PPE across the state, and we received national recognition on the Google PPE marketplace, which we currently have. Over 100 hospitals, 436 suppliers and more than 1500 healthcare providers, Missouri businesses and other organization registered in this marketplace. Pillar three was hospital capacity. Hospitals were not overwhelmed, and we converted a hotel in a hot to a hospital in just 11 days, thanks to the Missouri National Guard and the Army Corps of Engineers. And if somebody would have asked me governor, was it possible to put a hospital in the state of Missouri in 11 days when this all started, I would have probably tried to look at him like you got to be kidding me and we did. And that's because the hard work and people knew what the job ahead was and how much it meant to the people. The state to protect him from May to first to yesterday junior 10 total hospitalization has fallen by 43% statewide. As more people recover, I see you bids and ventilators become available. Pillar four. The data Let me just before I start on the data. Just remember when we first started out where the most hardest one of most difficult obstacles I had is governed. State of Missouri was getting information to make decisions. There was a lot of national models out there that, frankly, were pretty inaccurate and wasn't doing us much good. And finally, with the resource is we had in the state and coming together with a plan to say, We need to take care of Missouri first, And that's when the Pillar four become. The data becomes so important to make decisions, and we continue to use that data today. So we went from having Missouri specific data to an entire dashboard of data from across the state, and I want to thank the Department of Health and Senior Services, the infectious disease doctors panel, Washington University, EMU and many of my directors involved in helping us together. Missouri data We have learned and accomplished so much since March. No one what we know. We're much better prepared to deal with Kovar 19 going forward, Which is why we're confident that Missouri is ready to take the next step forward. Beginning Tuesday, June the 16th we will move into phase two of our recovery plan. Phase two will be no statewide order. Missouri will be fully open for business in the entire state of Missouri. Local officials will still have the ability to further major or regulate in places. But from a state wide stance, all restrictions will be lifted. We know that there have been lots of questions and concerns regarding nursing homes and veterans homes. The state of Missouri and our partners in long term care are committed to assuring health and safety of some of our most vulnerable citizens in long term care facilities throughout the state. Since the beginning of covert 19 crisis are long term care facilities are veterans. Homes have put restrictions in place regarding visitations. We also continue to take aggressive actions with our box and testing strategy when a positive cases identified in either staff or residents, we're grateful to our long Term Care Facilities and Veterans Commission for their work and recognition of the importance of testing to keep our loved ones safe at this time. The Department of Health and Senior Services is working closely with the long term care industry to issue guidance on safety and logistical, reopening long term care facilities in a way that aligns with the situation in each community and individual facilities. We expect to publish these recommendations within the next few days. I want to thank each of you with a love one in those facilities. We know we all share the same desire to keep them healthy both physically and mentally as we fully reopen and Phase two, we will be extending the emergency declarations through December the 30th in order to utilize the Cares Act funding. I have also extended four previous executive orders through December the 30th which are Executive order 20-4 Waving or suspending over 530 regulatory burdens. Executive Order 2006 Mobilizing the National Guard in our response efforts Executive order 2008 Waving the requirements for a person to be physically present in front of a notary public, an executive order 20 Dachau five. Allowing the sale of UN prepared restaurant foods to the public, extending these orders is inconsistent with the mercy declaration and give Missourians time to adjust. As we reopen and work through the recovery process. We have full confidence that Missouri is prepared and ready to move forward. But I want to be clear. Just because we're fully reopening the state does not mean that the steps we've taken so far should be for gotten. The virus is still out there and it is still extremely important for everyone to continue social distancing. And we need to be proactive, avoid large, congested crowds and if you can't social distance, take extra precautions to protect yourself and those around you. We all know how to do this at this point and is up to us to take personal responsibility for our own actions. The health and safety of all Missourians will always be our number one priority. But as I have said many times, Cove in 19 has had a devastating impact on our economy. We have met the four pillars. We have accelerated testing. We know that our preventive measures needs to be taken and we are prepared to deal with any potential outbreaks or hot spots. Now is the time to begin repairing our economy and getting Missouri businesses, communities and citizens back on their feet and back to work. Today, Director Dixon is here to talk more about our plans for the economic recovery. Rob. Thank you, Governor. Hi, I'm Rob Dixon. I lead the Missouri Department of Economic Development. As we take this next step towards economic recovery, it's important to remember that the public health response and the economic recovery our state for our state are two sides of the same coin. And as we deal with the impact of the virus will have to address them both. As the governor has outlined, we simply cannot have one without the other. Today's action is due to the work that so many people on the front lines of the healthcare response have done to strengthen those key health care pillars that the governor touched on. You know, we've worked hard to through common sense measures like social distancing, good hygiene in the restrictions in the previous orders, and our teams have been working with employers across the state to make sure that they have. The resource is that they need to protect their workers and their customers, and what we've heard from businesses across Missouri is incredibly encouraging. Of the employers that we connected with, 82% have implemented screening and other health procedures for their employees and 78% have a plan in place in the event of an outbreak. This planning and continued caution is incredibly important, even as the health exporter health order expires. We have to be village vigilant to prevent future outbreaks and to keep our economy open. We also encourage businesses to develop a plan for testing and contact tracing and many thanks to those businesses that have already done so. But I also wanted to talk a little bit today about some of the signs that we're seeing in the economy, and those signs are pointing towards a recovery. Companies are beginning to call workers back that were laid off, and we're seeing a decline in the ongoing unemployment claims. They were at a peak, a historic peak of 440,000 to now fallen down to 350,000 at the worst part of this event. Over the course of the spring, Missourians that are employed in small businesses such as restaurants and retailers worked on Lee about 50% of the hours that they normally worked in January. The most recent data that we've seen shows that they're down. We're down now by a little more than 20% still down, but moving in the right direction. At the end of April, another survey that we conducted showed only 5% of small businesses were seeing increases in revenue. That was in April. The latest data shows that has climbed now more than 15% showing an increase in revenue at its lowest point. Credit and debit card spending on consumer goods had fallen to roughly 35% since January. And now we're back to nearly 5% of where we were back in January. Finally were encouraged by strong upticks in job postings in some of the hardest hit industries across our state, like leisure and hospitality. So even though we have a ways to go on the economic recovery, the bottom line is that our economy is coming back to track our progress and to keep everyone informed. We've launched a new economic recovery dashboard with many of these measures. We've talked about this over the last few weeks. In particular, you can find it online right now at show Me strong dot meow dot gov slash dashboard that show me strong dot meow dot gov slash dashboard. It's going to take all of us, the public sector, the private sector are nonprofit and community sectors working together to bring the economy back. And that's what's happening right now. Today's news by the governor is a tremendous step toward our state's economic recovery, and we truly appreciate the governor's leadership on these issues. The governor show me strong recovery plan focuses on helping businesses, communities and citizens, and it is working. We want to get Missourians back to work. We want to make sure that we're eliminating barriers to business growth so that they can return strong. We want to help local governments and nonprofit organizations access. Resource is, and we want to help invest in our states infrastructure in ways that drive job creation across the board. You know, before all of this started, our economy was strong and even getting in getting even stronger. And as the governor has said, Cove in 19 is not gone. But we do know what we need to do to protect ourselves and and each other. And as a result, today we're able to say the Missourians air getting back to work. And that's what today is all about. Thank you, Governor. Thank you, Director. Also, Director Williams is also here today to answer questions here shortly. I the director. It always makes me pretty careful what I say up here when it comes to new announcements and stuff. But let me just say, I think there's some good news on the way That's a direct will be able to share the weeks to come for the state of Mercury. I think before this all took place, it was a lot of people interested in expanding in our state and come into our state, and I think those people are still out there, and we're going to see some signs of that in the near future. One of the topic. I'd like to bring up real quick today on O'Brien's here, and I'm sure he's gonna ask me the question if I don't say something about it, so I might as well get it over with. We've been in discussions with E State Fair Commission, the director of ad culture, trying to figure out what was going to do with the State Fair. I'm not sure we had a plan finalized with exactly how we were going to go with that. But I think it's kind of out there that the governor said something about going to have the state fair. So let me just kind of make it clear what we're going to do there. The state fairs only been canceled one time in over 100 years. It was during World War Two, a zey AG governor. I guess I want to say somebody comes from a farm. I don't want to be the second time on my watch that is cancelled. The state fair will go on some version of the state fair. There may be some things that don't happen that normally happen. They're shorter hours, less days. I don't know what that looks like it, but we will have some sort of state fair, and I'll go back to what I've always said about the state fair. You did remember the core values. It's about youth in agriculture and supporting agriculture. So my direction is get back to those basics, do what we gotta do, and maybe some of the other things. What we won't do. But now we want to do it and be a safest possible. But we plan on having a state fair here in State Missouri. So that being said Andi conclusion, I would like to say that were fully confident the Missouri is prepared and ready to reopen. But we must remember that Cove in 19 is not non use. Common sense practice good hygiene If you feel comfortable wearing a face covering and where face covering, be proactive and take precautions to protect yourself, your families and your neighbors and above all, continue social distancing. At some point, government has to get out of the way and lead people, live their lives and regulate their own cells. When it comes were at that time in the state of Missouri, and I know I know Missourians will continue to do the right thing, and I know that together Missouri will recover and come back stronger than ever before. And I just want to say and finished in day how much this means to me when I say it. But I mean this God bless you. God bless the great state of Missouri and God bless the United States of America.
afternoon, everyone, it is a great day in the state of Missouri. Beautiful day out there. Hope a lot of people are out there enjoying it today. Again, Let me just say this. I want to thank. I am thankful that the protests this week have remained peaceful across the state as they continue today. I had a chance to meet with community leaders from Kansas City, ST Louis and Columbia, an initial meeting with a lot of young activists that were involved in a lot of protests across the state. It was our first meeting, a little bit of a meeting to get to know one another a little bit and kind of really be able to talk issues, to talk about some of the things most of you have already covered. I will say that and then how do we move forward? So that was the initial conversation, and then we will be having a follow up meeting to discuss some of those issues at that point. And there were some issues I want to say that we you know, that we're not going to agree on so some different things. I want to make sure it clear that. But again, it was the process of starting a conversation to see things. What we can do, what we can do. And I appreciate their time, and I value their opinions on that. As you know, Phase one of the Show Me strong recovery plan expires this coming Monday on June 15th. It is truly incredible to think how far Missouri has come since March. At that time, no one knew what to expect. There was a lot of uncertainty, worry and concern concerns that our hospitals would be overwhelmed and that we couldn't have and we wouldn't have enough. I see you beds and ventilators. Concerns over PPE shortages concerns the testing wouldn't be widely available and many, many other concerns. Here we are today, just over 90 days since our first case in Missouri, and I am so proud of our Missouri citizens are Missouri companies and our communities across the state for doing their part and using common sense. Thanks to you, we have overcome all of these challenges and mawr than met are four pillars of reopening Pillar one was testing. We went from testing on Lee, a handful of people each day to an average of approximately 10,000 test per day over the last two weeks. Since April, the 20th weekly testing has increased more than 220%. Pillar two was PP. We continue to receive and distribute PPE across the state, and we received national recognition on the Google PPE marketplace, which we currently have. Over 100 hospitals, 436 suppliers and more than 1500 healthcare providers, Missouri businesses and other organization registered in this marketplace. Pillar three was hospital capacity. Hospitals were not overwhelmed, and we converted a hotel in a hot to a hospital in just 11 days, thanks to the Missouri National Guard and the Army Corps of Engineers. And if somebody would have asked me governor, was it possible to put a hospital in the state of Missouri in 11 days when this all started, I would have probably tried to look at him like you got to be kidding me and we did. And that's because the hard work and people knew what the job ahead was and how much it meant to the people. The state to protect him from May to first to yesterday junior 10 total hospitalization has fallen by 43% statewide. As more people recover, I see you bids and ventilators become available. Pillar four. The data Let me just before I start on the data. Just remember when we first started out where the most hardest one of most difficult obstacles I had is governed. State of Missouri was getting information to make decisions. There was a lot of national models out there that, frankly, were pretty inaccurate and wasn't doing us much good. And finally, with the resource is we had in the state and coming together with a plan to say, We need to take care of Missouri first, And that's when the Pillar four become. The data becomes so important to make decisions, and we continue to use that data today. So we went from having Missouri specific data to an entire dashboard of data from across the state, and I want to thank the Department of Health and Senior Services, the infectious disease doctors panel, Washington University, EMU and many of my directors involved in helping us together. Missouri data We have learned and accomplished so much since March. No one what we know. We're much better prepared to deal with Kovar 19 going forward, Which is why we're confident that Missouri is ready to take the next step forward. Beginning Tuesday, June the 16th we will move into phase two of our recovery plan. Phase two will be no statewide order. Missouri will be fully open for business in the entire state of Missouri. Local officials will still have the ability to further major or regulate in places. But from a state wide stance, all restrictions will be lifted. We know that there have been lots of questions and concerns regarding nursing homes and veterans homes. The state of Missouri and our partners in long term care are committed to assuring health and safety of some of our most vulnerable citizens in long term care facilities throughout the state. Since the beginning of covert 19 crisis are long term care facilities are veterans. Homes have put restrictions in place regarding visitations. We also continue to take aggressive actions with our box and testing strategy when a positive cases identified in either staff or residents, we're grateful to our long Term Care Facilities and Veterans Commission for their work and recognition of the importance of testing to keep our loved ones safe at this time. The Department of Health and Senior Services is working closely with the long term care industry to issue guidance on safety and logistical, reopening long term care facilities in a way that aligns with the situation in each community and individual facilities. We expect to publish these recommendations within the next few days. I want to thank each of you with a love one in those facilities. We know we all share the same desire to keep them healthy both physically and mentally as we fully reopen and Phase two, we will be extending the emergency declarations through December the 30th in order to utilize the Cares Act funding. I have also extended four previous executive orders through December the 30th which are Executive order 20-4 Waving or suspending over 530 regulatory burdens. Executive Order 2006 Mobilizing the National Guard in our response efforts Executive order 2008 Waving the requirements for a person to be physically present in front of a notary public, an executive order 20 Dachau five. Allowing the sale of UN prepared restaurant foods to the public, extending these orders is inconsistent with the mercy declaration and give Missourians time to adjust. As we reopen and work through the recovery process. We have full confidence that Missouri is prepared and ready to move forward. But I want to be clear. Just because we're fully reopening the state does not mean that the steps we've taken so far should be for gotten. The virus is still out there and it is still extremely important for everyone to continue social distancing. And we need to be proactive, avoid large, congested crowds and if you can't social distance, take extra precautions to protect yourself and those around you. We all know how to do this at this point and is up to us to take personal responsibility for our own actions. The health and safety of all Missourians will always be our number one priority. But as I have said many times, Cove in 19 has had a devastating impact on our economy. We have met the four pillars. We have accelerated testing. We know that our preventive measures needs to be taken and we are prepared to deal with any potential outbreaks or hot spots. Now is the time to begin repairing our economy and getting Missouri businesses, communities and citizens back on their feet and back to work. Today, Director Dixon is here to talk more about our plans for the economic recovery. Rob. Thank you, Governor. Hi, I'm Rob Dixon. I lead the Missouri Department of Economic Development. As we take this next step towards economic recovery, it's important to remember that the public health response and the economic recovery our state for our state are two sides of the same coin. And as we deal with the impact of the virus will have to address them both. As the governor has outlined, we simply cannot have one without the other. Today's action is due to the work that so many people on the front lines of the healthcare response have done to strengthen those key health care pillars that the governor touched on. You know, we've worked hard to through common sense measures like social distancing, good hygiene in the restrictions in the previous orders, and our teams have been working with employers across the state to make sure that they have. The resource is that they need to protect their workers and their customers, and what we've heard from businesses across Missouri is incredibly encouraging. Of the employers that we connected with, 82% have implemented screening and other health procedures for their employees and 78% have a plan in place in the event of an outbreak. This planning and continued caution is incredibly important, even as the health exporter health order expires. We have to be village vigilant to prevent future outbreaks and to keep our economy open. We also encourage businesses to develop a plan for testing and contact tracing and many thanks to those businesses that have already done so. But I also wanted to talk a little bit today about some of the signs that we're seeing in the economy, and those signs are pointing towards a recovery. Companies are beginning to call workers back that were laid off, and we're seeing a decline in the ongoing unemployment claims. They were at a peak, a historic peak of 440,000 to now fallen down to 350,000 at the worst part of this event. Over the course of the spring, Missourians that are employed in small businesses such as restaurants and retailers worked on Lee about 50% of the hours that they normally worked in January. The most recent data that we've seen shows that they're down. We're down now by a little more than 20% still down, but moving in the right direction. At the end of April, another survey that we conducted showed only 5% of small businesses were seeing increases in revenue. That was in April. The latest data shows that has climbed now more than 15% showing an increase in revenue at its lowest point. Credit and debit card spending on consumer goods had fallen to roughly 35% since January. And now we're back to nearly 5% of where we were back in January. Finally were encouraged by strong upticks in job postings in some of the hardest hit industries across our state, like leisure and hospitality. So even though we have a ways to go on the economic recovery, the bottom line is that our economy is coming back to track our progress and to keep everyone informed. We've launched a new economic recovery dashboard with many of these measures. We've talked about this over the last few weeks. In particular, you can find it online right now at show Me strong dot meow dot gov slash dashboard that show me strong dot meow dot gov slash dashboard. It's going to take all of us, the public sector, the private sector are nonprofit and community sectors working together to bring the economy back. And that's what's happening right now. Today's news by the governor is a tremendous step toward our state's economic recovery, and we truly appreciate the governor's leadership on these issues. The governor show me strong recovery plan focuses on helping businesses, communities and citizens, and it is working. We want to get Missourians back to work. We want to make sure that we're eliminating barriers to business growth so that they can return strong. We want to help local governments and nonprofit organizations access. Resource is, and we want to help invest in our states infrastructure in ways that drive job creation across the board. You know, before all of this started, our economy was strong and even getting in getting even stronger. And as the governor has said, Cove in 19 is not gone. But we do know what we need to do to protect ourselves and and each other. And as a result, today we're able to say the Missourians air getting back to work. And that's what today is all about. Thank you, Governor. Thank you, Director. Also, Director Williams is also here today to answer questions here shortly. I the director. It always makes me pretty careful what I say up here when it comes to new announcements and stuff. But let me just say, I think there's some good news on the way That's a direct will be able to share the weeks to come for the state of Mercury. I think before this all took place, it was a lot of people interested in expanding in our state and come into our state, and I think those people are still out there, and we're going to see some signs of that in the near future. One of the topic. I'd like to bring up real quick today on O'Brien's here, and I'm sure he's gonna ask me the question if I don't say something about it, so I might as well get it over with. We've been in discussions with E State Fair Commission, the director of ad culture, trying to figure out what was going to do with the State Fair. I'm not sure we had a plan finalized with exactly how we were going to go with that. But I think it's kind of out there that the governor said something about going to have the state fair. So let me just kind of make it clear what we're going to do there. The state fairs only been canceled one time in over 100 years. It was during World War Two, a zey AG governor. I guess I want to say somebody comes from a farm. I don't want to be the second time on my watch that is cancelled. The state fair will go on some version of the state fair. There may be some things that don't happen that normally happen. They're shorter hours, less days. I don't know what that looks like it, but we will have some sort of state fair, and I'll go back to what I've always said about the state fair. You did remember the core values. It's about youth in agriculture and supporting agriculture. So my direction is get back to those basics, do what we gotta do, and maybe some of the other things. What we won't do. But now we want to do it and be a safest possible. But we plan on having a state fair here in State Missouri. So that being said Andi conclusion, I would like to say that were fully confident the Missouri is prepared and ready to reopen. But we must remember that Cove in 19 is not non use. Common sense practice good hygiene If you feel comfortable wearing a face covering and where face covering, be proactive and take precautions to protect yourself, your families and your neighbors and above all, continue social distancing. At some point, government has to get out of the way and lead people, live their lives and regulate their own cells. When it comes were at that time in the state of Missouri, and I know I know Missourians will continue to do the right thing, and I know that together Missouri will recover and come back stronger than ever before. And I just want to say and finished in day how much this means to me when I say it. But I mean this God bless you. God bless the great state of Missouri and God bless the United States of America.
‘Fully open for business:’ Missouri removes all statewide COVID-19 restrictions starting June 16
Updated: 6:59 PM CDT Jun 11, 2020
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said starting next Tuesday the Show-Me State will remove all statewide restrictions that have been in place during the COVID-19 outbreak.Parson said the second phase of the state’s recovery plan beginning on June 16 means “Missouri will be fully open for business in the entire state.”“It is truly incredible to think about how far Missouri has come since March,” Parson said. “At that time, no one knew what to expect. There was a lot of uncertainty, worry, and concern. Here we are today, just over 90 days since our first COVID-19 case in Missouri, and I am proud to say we have overcome all of these challenges and more than met our four pillars to reopen.” During phase two, Parson said there will be no statewide health order. All statewide restrictions will be lifted, but Parson said local officials will still have the authority to put further rules, regulations or ordinances in place.Parson said the decision to “reopen” was based on expanded testing volume throughout the state, expanded reserves of personal protective equipment, the ability to expand capacity in the health care system and the improved ability to predict potential outbreaks.“Now is the time to begin repairing our economy and getting Missouri businesses, communities, and citizens back on their feet and back to work,” Parson said.The first phase of Missouri’s recovery plan ends Monday, and the Show-Me state has been under phase one since May 4.On May 28, Parson extended the state phase one order through June 15. At the time, the governor said doing that aligned with other executive orders, as well as the state of emergency in Missouri.Parson said it’s still important for people in Missouri to continue to be aware of COVID-19 and practice measures to stay healthy.“Just because we're fully reopening the state does not mean that the steps we've taken so far, should be forgotten,” Parson said. “The virus is still out there and is still extremely important for everyone to continue social distancing.”
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said starting next Tuesday the Show-Me State will remove all statewide restrictions that have been in place during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Parson said the second phase of the state’s recovery plan beginning on June 16 means “Missouri will be fully open for business in the entire state.”
“It is truly incredible to think about how far Missouri has come since March,” Parson said. “At that time, no one knew what to expect. There was a lot of uncertainty, worry, and concern. Here we are today, just over 90 days since our first COVID-19 case in Missouri, and I am proud to say we have overcome all of these challenges and more than met our four pillars to reopen.”
During phase two, Parson said there will be no statewide health order. All statewide restrictions will be lifted, but Parson said local officials will still have the authority to put further rules, regulations or ordinances in place.
Parson said the decision to “reopen” was based on expanded testing volume throughout the state, expanded reserves of personal protective equipment, the ability to expand capacity in the health care system and the improved ability to predict potential outbreaks.
“Now is the time to begin repairing our economy and getting Missouri businesses, communities, and citizens back on their feet and back to work,” Parson said.
The first phase of Missouri’s recovery plan ends Monday, and the Show-Me state has been under phase one since May 4.
On May 28, Parson extended the state phase one order through June 15. At the time, the governor said doing that aligned with other executive orders, as well as the state of emergency in Missouri.
Parson said it’s still important for people in Missouri to continue to be aware of COVID-19 and practice measures to stay healthy.
“Just because we're fully reopening the state does not mean that the steps we've taken so far, should be forgotten,” Parson said. “The virus is still out there and is still extremely important for everyone to continue social distancing.”