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Essential businesses Up North to screen employees for COVID-19

By & • Apr 10, 2020

Sarah Allis works at Leland Mercantile in Leland. Essential businesses like grocery stores are now required to screen their employees for symptoms of COVID-19 and take proper social distancing measures.
Credit Noelle Riley / Interlochen Public Radio

County health departments are asking businesses that remain open to step up their efforts to prevent transmission of the coronavirus.

These local orders mainly involve screening employees and practicing social distancing in workplaces.

 

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Employee has COVID-19 at Cordia senior living in Traverse City, staff says facility slow to respond

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Elk Rapids wants Gov. Whitmer to ban travel between first and second homes

By • Apr 9, 2020

Add Elk Rapids to the list of northern Michigan communities worried about the influx of travelers coming north amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Village President Jim Janisse wrote a letter to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer this week, asking her to give people a “one-time choice” between staying at their first and second homes and banning future travel between the two. Janisse says there are currently some people coming to the area just for the weekends.