By Bill Dries, Daily Memphian
Updated: March 30, 2020 4:50 PM CT | Published: March 30, 2020 4:50 PM CT
The father and son team of Memphis City Council member Edmund Ford Sr. and Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. say three hotels are willing to turn over “a significant number” of their rooms for use as a medical facility.
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland announced that beginning at 8 a.m. Tuesday, March 31, the city is limiting access to city parks, including closing Riverside Drive by Tom Lee Park, as well as roads near other parks.
Gov. Bill Lee made a statewide stay-at-home order Monday requiring all Tennesseans to avoid all nonessential contact with other people and also ordering nonessential businesses to close.
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