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Calvert County will follow with the lifting of the state’s stay-at-home order, but the Calvert County Board of County Commissioners voted to extend the county’s by 30 days.
The move Thursday came as a previous extension of the emergency declaration was set to expire Friday.
Commissioner President Kelly McConkey initially executed the declaration of a local state of emergency March 17.
Under the local state of emergency, Calvert County government buildings had closed for three weeks last month. Though county buildings reopened to employees late last month, they remain closed to the public under the emergency declaration.
The county government has no control over the reopening of businesses.
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In addition, Calvert County has committed roughly $1.5 million to its coronavirus response.
The last time that Calvert extended the declaration, McConkey said, 鈥淭his action enables us to remain at a heightened state of readiness, with the flexibility we need to respond swiftly as this crisis evolves.鈥�
Calvert County has .
In announcing the gradual lifting of statewide coronavirus restrictions, Hogan gave local jurisdictions the go-ahead to move more slowly at easing the restrictions.
“We are providing for a flexible, community-based approach, which empowers individual county leaders to make decisions,” Hogan said Wednesday.
