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| Gov. Beshear signs an executive order to close all non-essential businesses. Here is a list of what WILL be open... |
Governor Andy Beshear announced in his press conference on Tuesday that further steps would be taken to ensure that Kentuckians were following safe social distancing practices. As a result, he announced that all non-essential businesses would be ordered to closed at 8 p.m. on Thursday night.
More clarification on the executive order came out Wednesday around 12 p.m. in the form of a PDF released on Gov. Beshear's Facebook page.
Essential businesses may remain open...but every other business must close per the Governor's order. We have included a full list of what CAN REMAIN OPEN below.
Essential businesses are defined as those that are 'Life-Sustaining' businesses. Below you can read a section of the his order that outlines this. (Read the full details of his executive order here..)
The businesses that can stay OPEN include:
- grocery stores
- drug stores and pharmacies
- banks
- hardware stores
- agricultural operations
- gas stations
- media
- businesses needed for transportation
- logistics
- shipping
- delivery and pick-up
- housing, building and construction
- laundry
- financial services
- home-based care and services
- professional services
- manufacturing
- other businesses key to national interests or life-sustaining goods or services
- businesses covered under the federal critical infrastructure sector
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