Alabama governor extended Safer at Home order through early October

Kay ivey announced just minutes ago she is extending her state's mask order until the first friday in october.

"i wish we didn't have to wear masks, but we're seeing significant drops in our hospitalizations and daily positive covid- 19 numbers."

The extension with the mask mandate does go through the labor day holiday weekend where public health experts are waiting to see if there's an increase in cases after that.

Alabama's department of public health reported more than six hundred cases 25 new deaths were also in the report since mid-march, alabama reported more than 110- thousand cases nearly two thousand people died from the virus.

This is the current situation of coronavirus cases for the counties in our viewing area.

Franklin county still leads that area with more than 14-hundred cases marion county has 681 confirmed cases lamar county wtih 266 and pickens county, ala with 508cases all of these cases are from mid-march until today.

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