Governor selects houses of worship as test case for relaxing Indiana coronavirus restrictions

While some businesses and retailers in Porter and LaPorte counties opened on a limited basis Monday, the first entities due to restart operations in Lake County under the state's relaxed coronavirus guidelines will be religious institutions.

Gov. Eric Holcomb last week announced that all houses of worship may resume normal services, statewide, beginning Friday, even though the reopening of most other places likely to attract a crowd is gradually being rolled out about every three weeks through July 4.

The Republican governor said Monday he deliberately chose places of worship to go first because Holcomb believes leaders of religious entities will be most likely to look after their flock, and carefully follow the state's reopening and COVID-19 safety guidance.

"What we're going to do is learn from these steps that we're taking. We just thought a good place to start, or a good place to have a test or a control group, would be houses of worship," Holcomb said.

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