Updated on January 29, 2021 at 6:57 pm
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Next week, Maine will follow Massachusetts in allowing businesses to stay open past an early closing time for the first time in months.
Maine s 9 p.m. business curfew has been in place since before Thanksgiving, when Gov. Janet Mills implemented it as a way to prevent the new coronavirus from spreading over the holidays.
“The early closing time was aimed at reducing the higher rate of COVID-19 transmission,” she said Thursday, adding that “Maine is beginning to round that corner on that post-holiday surge.”
As of Thursday, the state’s seven-day PCR positivity rate was 3.64%.