Gov. Bill Lee issues two-week 'safer at home' order, close non-essential businesses effective 11:59 p.m. Tuesday 
Gov. Bill Lee on Monday issued a two-week statewide order closing non-essential businesses and telling Tennesseans to stay home in an effort to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
The "safer at home" order, filed Monday afternoon, enacts similar restrictions put in place by mayors in Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville and governors in at least 30 other states. In recent days, some smaller cities in Tennessee have also implemented such orders.
"This is not a mandated 'shelter in place' order, because it remains deeply important to me to protect personal liberties," Lee said at a Monday afternoon news briefing.
The order takes effect at 11:59 p.m. Tuesday and lasts through April 14, during which time only essential businesses are to continue operating and residents are to stay home "as much as possible," per Executive Order 21, which was being filed Monday with the Secretary of State's office.
Lee held off on shutting down Tennessee for more than a week, insisting statewide orders are difficult to enforce and that he preferred to advise social distancing instead of mandating it. The governor cited Tennesseans' willingness to do the right thing.
However, desperate pleas from mayors and medical professionals have increased pressure on the governor to take more aggressive action.
Dr. Aaron Milstone, a Franklin critical care physician at the forefront of the campaign to pressure the governor, has said epidemiology models predict a statewide stay-at-home order could potentially save thousands of lives.
“The only tactic guaranteed to slow the spread of the virus and mitigate both the strain on our healthcare supplies and workers, while protecting lives is the stay at home order Governor Lee should have enacted over a week ago,” Milstone said in a statement.
As of Monday, state health officials had tallied 1,834 cases and 13 deaths in Tennessee as a result of the coronavirus, with some of the largest clusters in Nashville, Memphis and Williamson County. At least 148 people are hospitalized.
SOURCE: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2020/03/30/tennessee-governor-bill-lee-stay-at-home-order-to-stop-coronavirus/2937429001/#
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