Des Moines, Iowa – All Iowa residents who believe they need a coronavirus test can now get one, Gov. Kim Reynolds said last Thursday, a day after she announced that more businesses and meeting places could reopen.

Reynolds said the expanded testing is especially important as more Iowans return to work. Iowans who want a test must fill out an assessment at the TestIowa website.

Reynolds allowed movie theaters, museums and zoos to open last Friday and said bars can reopen at 50% capacity this week. Restaurants and some other businesses already had reopened.

Reynolds continued to defend her relaxation of restrictions imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus by saying the state is equipped to monitor and contain any virus outbreaks that may occur. The virus has been identified in all but one of Iowa’s 99 counties. Nursing homes and communities with meatpacking plants have been hit the hardest.

“We have never said that nobody would ever, that we were going to prevent people from getting COVID-19. That’s unrealistic and unobtainable. What we have to do is learn to live with it and manage the virus. We have to get things back to normal,” Reynolds said.