DeKalb County’s confirmed cases of COVID-19 stayed steady at a total 10 for a full week. However, Monday’s report from the Tennessee Department of Health noted two new cases bringing the number to 12. There have been no deaths in DeKalb County from the virus and seven who tested positive have recovered.

Governor Bill Lee also announced on Monday that his Safer at Home order will expire April 30, and the state will begin reopening the economy.

“Social distancing must continue, but our economic shutdown cannot,” Lee said. “While I am not extending the safer at home order past the end of April, we are working directly with our major metropolitan areas to ensure they are in a position to reopen as soon and safely as possible. Social distancing works, and as we open up our economy, it will be more important than ever that we keep social distancing as lives and livelihoods depend on it.”

Lee said he will work with health departments in metropolitan areas like Shelby, Madison, Davidson, Hamilton, Knox and Sullivan counties as they plan their own strategies to begin reopening.

“Our Economic Recovery Group is working with industry leaders around the clock so that some businesses can open as soon as Monday, April 27,” Gov. Lee said. “These businesses will open according to specific guidance that we will provide in accordance with state and national experts in both medicine and business.”

As of April 20, Tennessee had 7,238 COVID-19 cases.

Anyone, with or without COVID-19 symptoms who has concerns, is invited to receive testing for COVID-19 at the local health department. This testing will be provided at no cost to participants, and those who come for testing can remain in their vehicles throughout the process of collecting their samples.

Nurses and/or National Guard medics will collect nasal swabs from those who want to be tested, and test results may be available within 72 hours after the samples arrive at the lab, depending on lab volume.