“I am beyond disturbed,” Savannah’s mayor, Van R. Johnson, said on CNN, of the governor’s decision.
Projections show that Georgia has not seen the worst of the
coronavirus, with deaths not forecast to level off until early May, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. The state has recorded about 19,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19, with nearly 800 deaths as of Tuesday afternoon, according to state public health data.