D.C., you’re going to have to stay home for another few weeks.

Mayor Muriel Bowser on Wednesday made the largely expected decision to extend the city’s current stay-at-home order through June 8. It was set to expire this Friday, May 15.

“We’re not there yet and not quite ready to begin that phased re-opening,” she said.

The decision comes as both Maryland and Virginia take their own baby steps towards reopening. It also reflects the reality that both D.C. and the counties immediately around it still aren’t ready to follow suit. This week, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said Northern Virginia counties won’t start to reopen with the rest of the state this week, instead doing so at their own pace. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is expected to give Montgomery and Prince George’s counties the same type of flexibility.

“I think that’s good news for all of us,” Bowser said.

Her decision to extend the stay-at-home order also comes the day before a ReOpen D.C. protest has been called at Freedom Plaza, in which organizers say they will call on her to end what they call “the oppressive shutdowns and reopen our businesses, restaurants and churches.” (Similar protests have happened in Richmond, Annapolis and other cities across the country, though polling shows a majority of Americans support the lockdowns.)

While Bowser did not respond specifically to the news of the protest, she said lifting restrictions early would merely mean more challenges down the road.

“Rushing to reopen can have tragic results. We are eager to get our economy turned on and get kids back to school… but we know a second outbreak could be even worse,” she said.

City officials have said that any decision to scale back on the stay-at-home order first imposed on March 30 would be based on specific metrics: a 14-day decrease in the number of new COVID-19 cases, enough hospital beds and personal protective equipment to meet demand, and beefed up testing and contact tracing capabilities.

Bowser said D.C. is starting to show some progress on those metrics. New positive cases have been on the decline over the last four days, and the rate of community transmission has been below a specific threshold for two days. Additionally, Bowser said that there are enough hospital beds to handle a possible surge in cases; beyond 1,600 beds that hospital beds are adding to manage COVID-19 cases, this week a 444-bed field hospital opened in the Washington Convention Center.

But Bowser also said city officials still believe there are more people in priority groups — residents showing symptoms, at-risk health care workers, essential workers, and people who have had contact with positive cases — who have yet to be tested.

“We’re still not testing all the people we should be testing in those four groups,” she said.

Bowser did say that June 8 won’t be set in stone — should the city meet its goals before that, she could announce a phased reopening earlier. “I have the ability to revise the stay at home order,” she said. “I could extend it, but hopefully we won’t have to.”

But even when reopening starts, it will proceed slowly, with certain businesses allowed to open while some crowd-size and social distancing restrictions remain in place. Bowser’s ReOpen D.C. Advisory Group, which is set to advise her on what reopening will look like in different areas, is expected to submit its first report to her next week. Dr. Anthony Fauci, a key advisor to President Trump on the coronavirus outbreak and longtime head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, advised the group in a meeting earlier this week.

Bowser did offer one hint: the city will launch a new pilot program this Friday that will allow stores that sell educational and academic materials — like bookstores — to offer curbside pickup options.