The mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee, said he can't promise it's safe for businesses to reopen until he knows how many cases there are in his community — something he can't know without help from the federal government to expand the city's testing capacity, he said. Nevertheless, the governor announced Monday that the "vast majority" of businesses in the state were allowed to reopen. The development puts Chattanooga at the center of growing partisan tension between Democratic city leaders in the South who want to pursue a slower approach until testing has increased and Republican governors who want the economy reopened as quickly as possible. |