Local leaders say they are supportive of the governor’s efforts to keep Mississippi residents safe during the COVID-19 outbreak, although still concerned about the long-term impact the mandated quarantine will have on their community’s small businesses.

Gov. Tate Reeves’s stay-at-home order, which has been in place since the evening of April 3, expired Monday and was replaced with his new “safer at home” order, which still requires medically vulnerable people to remain home but allows more movement by others. It also allows businesses deemed nonessential by the original order to reopen at half-capacity, although person-to-person businesses like gyms, barbershops, hair and nail salons, and tattoo parlors are among those remaining closed. Dentists and physicians can again start offering elective medical procedures.

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