Governor Mills announced today that she will end the 9 p.m. early closing time for businesses beginning Monday.

Her decision is a result of a decrease in the state’s positivity rate of new COVID-19 cases.

The news lifts the mandated curfew for restaurants and bars, indoor and outdoor amusements, movie theaters, performing arts venues and casinos.

“We are beginning to round the corner on the post-holiday surge of COVID-19. With these improved public health metrics, and with the holidays behind us, it is appropriate to remove the early closing time requirement,” said Mills.