General Assembly extends Lamont's pandemic powers to Sept. 30
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Gov. Ned Lamont speaks at a news conference at Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo, in Bridgeport, Conn. March 29, 2021. Lamont joined others to announce the deployment FEMA’s new COVID-19 mobile vaccination unit, which is set up and running this week in the zoo’s parking lot.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
After several
hours of debate that showed the partisan divide over how lawmakers think Connecticut should respond 16 months into coronavirus pandemic, the General Assembly voted Wednesday to extend Gov. Ned Lamont’s emergency powers until Sept. 30.
This is the fifth extension of the state’s public health and civil preparedness emergencies, which have been in place since March 2020.