Massachusetts Announces Four Phase Plan to Reopen
On Monday May 18, 2020, Governor Baker announced the first phase of his administration’s much-anticipated plan to reopen Massachusetts (the “Plan”), nearly eight weeks after first ordering non-essential businesses to close and advising residents to stay home in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. In describing the phased reopening, the Governor repeatedly emphasized that the coronavirus has hit Massachusetts particularly hard – both in terms of confirmed cases and confirmed cases per capita. The Plan to reopen accordingly presents a careful and deliberate phased approach with regards to which businesses can open and when, and what metrics those businesses must meet…