It’s been over two months since D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser urged District residents to stay at home and enacted an emergency shutdown of non-essential businesses due to COVID-19.

Although she said D.C. would begin reopening on June 8, late last week, statistics showed tremendous improvement and Bowser hinted that a potential phased reopening could begin on May 29.

Despite a brief mix-up with metrics discovered over the weekend, as of May 26, D.C. reached day 13 of sustained decline- with the target being 14 days- thus statistics are leaning towards an imminent phased reopening for the nation’s capital.

These bleak statistics have prevented D.C.’s phased reopening up to this point; however the Mayor reported that no Washingtonians had passed due to COVID-19 the night before, and statistics show 109 residents had been diagnosed with the virus the previous day, which is considered a decrease safe enough to add to the District’s reopening metrics.

Bowser also announced a new testing site for downtown, D.C.

“A new downtown walkup testing site- and that will be established on 5th Street N.W between F and G Streets, near The Building Museum.”