LIVONIA, Mich. (WXYZ) — The Mayor of Livonia says the COVID-19 patient from Wayne County is a resident of that community.
The man is currently being treated at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor. He has a history of domestic travel.
Mayor Maureen Miller Brosnan reassured residents and employees, pledging that the City would continue clear, steady communication.
“The City of Livonia is well prepared,” said Mayor Brosnan in a statement. “We have been monitoring the COVID-19 outbreak since Feb. 3. This is a call to action to our residents to be hyper-vigilant with personal hygiene practices – washing hands, cleaning commonly used surfaces regularly, sneezing into your sleeve, asking anyone with flu-like symptoms or health-compromised people to self-quarantine, and avoiding large public gatherings.”
Mayor Brosnan has convened two meetings of the City’s Leadership Staff in its Emergency Operations Center to discuss steps the City will be taking to protect residents and employees.
Those include:
- Providing residents with daily updates through a Situational Report, available on the city website at www.livonia.gov/1825/COVID-19-Information/
- Ensuring public areas in City buildings are being more frequently cleaned and sanitized.
- Joining with Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s directive to cancel or postpone all City-sponsored events over 100 people, through the end of April.
- Limiting non-essential travel and conferences for City employees.
- Encouraging social distancing for both residents and employees.
- Posting notices on City buildings asking anyone with flu-like symptoms or who has been in contact with COVID-19 to avoid entering those buildings.
- Temporarily halting in-home water meter replacements.
- Asking employees who can work remotely to do so.
- Requesting that local organizations cancel or postpone large events.
The City will be updating its public information platforms with more COVID-19 details, as they become available.