Orange County extended its county-wide stay at home order past its initial April 30 expiration date.

County officials, in cooperation with the mayors of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough, decided to extend the order until May 8, according to a release from Orange County. The new length of the order coincides with the extension of North Carolina’s state-wide stay at home order announced Thursday afternoon.

“We are monitoring the stats for Orange County and the state daily, and when the data indicates it is safe for us to ease these restrictions, we will do so,” Chair of the Board of Orange County Commissioners Penny Rich said in a release.

The county enacted its own stay at home order on March 27, one of many steps local government has taken in an effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

Since the order was enacted in Orange County, eight coronavirus-related deaths of county residents have been reported by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and the positive case total is close to 200.

To view the full, original stay at home order by the Orange County government, visit the county’s website. To learn what specific actions you can and cannot do, visit Chapelboro’s guidelines for the order.

The full county release on the extension can be read on the Orange County website.

 

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