Gov. Ned Lamont announced Monday the state will lift all pandemic-related restrictions on May 19, allowing restaurants, theaters and other businesses to open at full capacity.
The state will begin to relax rules May 1, Lamont said during a Monday afternoon press conference. On May 1 restaurant curfews will be rolled back one hour to 12 a.m., bars will be allowed to serve alcohol without food and the state will drop restrictions on the number of people who can sit at a table.
On May 19, Lamont said, all restrictions will end, but the state will continue to recommend wearing masks indoors for people who haven t been vaccinated.
The governor wants you continuing wearing a mask, but the bars, theaters and ballparks soon will be open without other restrictions.
Connecticut will end its COVID-19 restrictions in two steps next month, beginning May 1 for outdoor activities and May 19 for everything else. The remaining mandate will be a requirement for wearing masks in public indoor places.
Gov. Ned Lamont announced Monday moves that essentially will conclude the extraordinary state of emergency that began 14 months ago but do not mark end of a pandemic that claimed 19 lives since Friday and pushed the state’s death toll past 8,000.
The announcement at the first of his twice-a-week televised COVID briefings was anticlimactic, described by Lamont as another of the steps the governor has taken towards reopening civic, social and commercial life in Connecticut.
Cloe Poisson / CT Mirror
Connecticut will end its COVID-19 restrictions in two steps next month, beginning May 1 for outdoor activities and May 19 for everything else. The remaining mandate will be a requirement for wearing masks in public indoor places.
Gov. Ned Lamont announced Monday moves that essentially will conclude the extraordinary state of emergency that began 14 months ago but do not mark end of a pandemic that claimed 19 lives since Friday and pushed the state’s death toll past 8,000.
The announcement at the first of his twice-a-week televised COVID briefings was anticlimactic, described by Lamont as another of the steps the governor has taken toward reopening civic, social and commercial life in Connecticut.
Connecticut will end its COVID-19 restrictions in two steps next month, beginning May 1 for outdoor activities and May 19 for everything else. The remaining mandate will be a requirement for wearing masks in public indoor places.
Gov. Ned Lamont announced Monday moves that essentially will conclude the extraordinary state of emergency that began 14 months ago but do not mark end of a pandemic that claimed 19 lives since Friday and pushed the state’s death toll past 8,000.
The announcement at the first of his twice-a-week televised COVID briefings was anticlimactic, described by Lamont as another of the steps the governor has taken towards reopening civic, social and commercial life in Connecticut.
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