Recapping COVID restrictions Gov. Whitmer would like Michiganders to follow for 2 weeks Officials want residents to avoid indoor dining, gatherings, youth sports for 2 weeks Published: Tags: COVID-19 cases across the state and asked residents to voluntarily follow several restrictions over the next two weeks. You can watch the full briefing from April 9, 2021, in the video posted above. Ad “We have not seen that high of a positivity rate since our first surge last spring, a year ago, and that’s concerning because we are doing many more tests than we were then,” Khaldun said. “This indicates that there is now broad community spread.”