{"id":15662,"date":"2020-04-02T18:19:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T23:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=15662"},"modified":"2020-04-02T21:31:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T02:31:45","slug":"tennessee-governor-bill-lee-issues-stay-at-home-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/04\/02\/tennessee-governor-bill-lee-issues-stay-at-home-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Governor Bill Lee issues Stay at Home Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-330575\" title=\"Tennessee State Government\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Tennessee-State-Government-2.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee State Government\" width=\"250\" height=\"74\">Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Tennessee Governor Bill Lee will sign Executive Order 23 requiring that Tennesseans stay home unless they are carrying out essential activities as data shows an increase in citizen movement across the state.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Resent-Data-Shows-Increased-Activity-Among-Citizens-in-Tennessee.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-486328\" title=\"Resent Data Shows Increased Activity Among Citizens in Tennessee\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Resent-Data-Shows-Increased-Activity-Among-Citizens-in-Tennessee-480x292.jpg\" alt=\"Resent Data Shows Increased Activity Among Citizens in Tennessee\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\"><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last few weeks, we have seen decreases in movement around the state as Tennesseans socially distance and stay at home,\u201d said Governor Lee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, in recent days we have seen data indicating that movement may be increasing and we must get these numbers trending back down. I have updated my previous executive order to clearly require that Tennesseans stay at home unless they are carrying out essential activities,\u201d Governor Lee stated.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the Tennessee Department of Transportation analyzed traffic patterns for March 2020. While safer at home measures and further restrictions on businesses showed a steep drop-off in vehicle movement from March 13th-29th, data beginning on March 30th indicates travel is trending upwards, again.<\/p>\n<p>The Administration also analyzed data from Unacast to understand <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unacast.com\/covid19\/social-distancing-scoreboard\" >cell phone mobility<\/a> and determine movement trends among people. Unacast indicates the movement of Tennesseans is trending toward pre-Coronavirus (COVID-19) levels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe month of April stands to be an extremely tough time for our state as we face the potential for a surge in COVID-19 cases,\u201d said Lee. \u201cEvery Tennessean must take this seriously, remain at home and ensure we save lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The executive order remains in effect until April 14th, 2020 at 11:59pm Governor Lee will address these measures in the press briefing today at 3:00pm CT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; Tennessee Governor Bill Lee will sign Executive Order 23 requiring that Tennesseans stay home unless they are carrying out essential activities as data shows an increase in citizen movement across the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[12333,12675,12712,107,549,284,12867,393,261,534,3350],"class_list":["post-15662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-bill-lee","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-featured","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-tn","tag-shelter-at-home","tag-tdot","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-transportation","tag-tennessee-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15669,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15662\/revisions\/15669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}