SHERIDAN — Early next week, Wyoming will begin a phased plan to ease restrictions, recover businesses and resume some activities, announced Gov. Mark Gordon in a press conference Thursday afternoon. The transition will be driven by health data, Gordon emphasized — not by politics or dates.  

“This will be a balanced approach that will be driven by two guiding principles: public safety and allowing our people to get back to work,” Gordon said. “But we need to slowly relax these restrictions and get ourselves ready for the new normal of business in 2020.”

Prior to the expiration of the current health orders on April 30, State Health Officer Dr. Alexia Harrist will issue modified statewide public health orders early next week, taking the first steps to move Wyoming into the next phase. 

The modified orders will allow county health officers to submit requests for countywide variances from those orders if the public health conditions in the county warrant the change.

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