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April 30, 2020Lincoln, Neb. |  By: AP

Nebraska to ease restrictions in Lincoln and other regions

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Gov. Pete Ricketts has announced plans to ease coronavirus restrictions in Lincoln and other parts of Nebraska, including some of the state's least-populated counties, even though the number of new, confirmed cases has surged.

Ricketts says he will extend the state's current public health restrictions in the Lincoln area through May 10. He will then relax them to match the less stringent rules that are set to go into effect in Omaha on Monday.

The Lincoln-area restrictions had originally been set to expire on May 6. Ricketts says the decision to extend the restrictions before relaxing them was based in part on conversations with Lincoln's mayor and the county's public health director.