Michigan restaurants would be shut down under GOP bill that sought to tie COVID-19 restrictions to metrics

Gov. Whitmer visits EMU vaccine clinic

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks as she visits a vaccine clinic at the EMU Convocation Center on Monday, April 12, 2021.Jacob Hamilton | The Ann Arbor News

YPSILANTI, MI - Republican lawmakers have long called on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration to identify specific metrics used to determine COVID-19 restrictions on Michigan businesses, and last month, they passed a Senate bill that would set concrete case and hospitalization rates to trigger shutdowns.

Under that bill, dine-in restaurant services would now be shut down as the state continues to experience a surge in rates of coronavirus infection.

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