Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey Credit: @GovernorKayIvey Twitter The current Safer Apart order consists primarily of recommendations aligned with CDC guidance. Posted: May 3, 2021 2:15 PM Posted By: Josh Rayburn Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday announced that Alabama’s COVID-19 public health order will end May 31, and the state of emergency will end July 6. Here’s more from her office’s news release: “For over a year now, Alabamians, like people around the globe, have made sacrifices and adjusted to a temporary ‘new normal.’ We have learned much since last year, and this is absolutely now a managed pandemic. Our infection rates and hospitalizations are in better shape, and over 1.5 million Alabamians have had at least one shot of the COVID-19 vaccine,” Governor Ivey said. “Alabamians have consistently stepped up to the plate over the course of this pandemic, and I know they will continue to do so. I am pleased that we have shown the rest of the country that we are gritty and determined. We are signaling loud and clear that Alabama is open, and we are moving forward.”