Madison County leaders discuss possibility of coronavirus shutdown

Madison County leaders discuss possibility of coronavirus shutdown

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The shoals -- which includes franklin, colbert and lauderdale counties -- reported 53 new cases.

There are now 2,367 total cases in the area.

Waay 31's sydney martin is live outside huntsville city hall this afternoon - after asking community leaders where they stand on rolling back openings as the number of coronavirus cases rise.

Mayor tommy battle and madison county health officer karen landers both told me they are waiting to see the impact of the county masking order - and now statewide order before deciding on any rollbacks.

Both- said they don't think closing the economy is the right option.

Landers "we do know right now our measures from the governors office and the state health officer doctor scott harris are really designed to keep the economy open and keep businesses operating."

Battle "we're following our advice of the madison county board of health, huntsville hospital, crestwood hospital, alabama department of public health.

There's probably over a 1000 medical physicians in this area and each one are going to have a different take on this, going to have a different focus on this.

" huntsville mayor tommy battle and madison county health officer karen landers told me they hope the statewide masking order is enough to stop the spread of coronavirus throughout alabama.

But for the past two weeks, huntsville hospital's director of infectious disease doctor ali hassoun told us it's not.

Sot "the state governor, state health officer really going to need to think about the lockdown.

I really think that need to be done now."

Battle did not go into deal about what those roll backs could look like, and landers governor kay ivey reserves the right to also put roll backs in place over the next few weeks if she finds them necessary.

Live in huntsville sm waay 31 news.

Despite the continuous rise in cases - doctor anthony fauci did assure people that the