ST. PAUL (KDLM) – Governor Tim Walz, Monday signed Executive Order 21-12 to extend the peacetime emergency in Minnesota.
“We are closer than ever to ending this pandemic and returning to our daily lives – and we must keep up the momentum,” said Governor Walz. “The peacetime emergency enables us to safeguard the progress we’ve made, protect Minnesotans’ health and well-being, and efficiently deliver the vaccine.”
Gov. Walz declared a peacetime emergency due to COVID-19 on March 13, 2020, and has extended it every 30 days since, as state law requires.
For months, Republicans and Democrats have asked the governor to include the legislature in the state’s decisions on how to respond to the pandemic with no avail.
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