FILE PHOTO: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer sits in a 2019 Chevrolet Traverse, assembled in Lansing, Michigan, at the General Motors display area during the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., January 15, 2019. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook
April 17, 2020
DETROIT (Reuters) – Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer said on Friday she is hopeful the state can begin to reengage parts of the economy beginning on May 1.
Whitmer made the remark in a webcast townhall, adding that a first phase of opening, if successful in preventing a new wave of COVID-19 infections, could then be expanded.
(Reporting by Michael Martina and Ben Klayman; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
