SOUTH CAROLINA (CN2 NEWS) This past weekend, after a Boeing Dreamlifter filled with 1.5 million surgical masks landed at Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport, Governor Henry McMaster says he’s planning to extend South Carolina’s State of Emergency for 15 more days. That means all executive orders McMaster’s given during the crisis will remain in order, including the “home or work order.”
“We are not out of this yet. We went into this in a smart way with targeted hot spots, so we do not have the burden that some of the other states have with business closures. But we are still facing a very serious disease and contagion,” McMaster said.
However, when asked about lifting or adding new restrictions for businesses in the state, the governor responded, “we’ll see.”
McMaster says he doesn’t think rates of infection will rise again because of information coming from his team. McMaster says he believes South Carolinians now have more awareness of the virus than we were a couple of months ago.
