Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration on Sunday ordered high schools to stop in-person classes, closed restaurants to indoor dining and suspended organized sports — including the football playoffs — as an attempt to curb the state’s coronavirus cases.

 

The restrictions will begin Wednesday and last three weeks. They are not as sweeping as the stay-at-home order last spring but are extensive. They were announced during a briefing last night as Michigan faces surging COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations statewide and rising deaths.

 

Robert Gordon, director of the state Department of Health and Human Services, says the new order is targeted and temporary.

 

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